The Dick Endecott Collection

Lagos

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1960 - Pyjama Party Marina mess - Herbie Blundell - Cathy Muir - Margaret Lishman - Ron Clarke

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1960 - Pyjama Party Marina mess - Ed Rodwell - Val Jenks - Malcolm Curry

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1960 - Pyjama Party Marina mess - John Sparkes on the defensive

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1961 - All-night beach party Tarqua - Gill (?) - Liz Blundell - Herbie Blundell - Bernie Weddel - BWGF - Malcolm Curry

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1961 - All-night beach party Tarqua - Liz Blundell - Herbie Blundell - Bernie Weddel - BWGF

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1961 - All-night beach party Tarqua - Gill (?) greets the dawn.

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1961- All-night beach party Tarqua - Liz Blundell has egg-on-toast for breakfast

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1961 - All-night beach party Tarqua - Bernie Weddel and GF

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1961 - All-night beach party Tarqua - John Sparkes chats up Bernie's GF

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1961 - Partial eclipse Lagos

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1961 - Hercules Mongrel - Ikoyi - - burglar alarm

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1961 - Ed Rodwell takes a dive into the Ikoyi Club pool

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1961 - View from Dick Endecott's balcony overlooking the Ikoyi aerial farm and the lagoon beyond.

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1961 - Fishing boat in Lagos Harbour - the Marina beyond

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1961 - One of Dick Endecott's trips to Dahomey (name now changed). The village is in the middle of a permanent shallow lake a couple of miles from the shore. All houses are built on stilts - except the school, which is on a tiny island. The decorated house belongs to the chief. 

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1961 - Eddie Rodwell as gladiator - note splendid animal on breast plate

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1961 - Sunset over the harbour with ships and cranes of the port at Apapa from the balcony at Nigerian External Telecommunications Ltd Office (formerly C & W) on the Marina Lagos.

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