Looking Back: Gang gets back together for Cathedral Square shoot

Chris Porsz presents another in his series of ‘now and then’ photographs, which can now be seen in a major exhibition “Reunions” at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery.
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Chris said: “In 1978 I spotted punks John Church, Gary Beckett, Ade Lawrence and Pippa Hodgson in Cathedral Square, wearing pin badges and looking very cool.”

John, who is now a painter and decorator in the city, said: “The other lads were school friends and Pippa was a mutual friend, we used to hang out together and listen to punk music.

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“I think I was about 15 and on the verge of becoming a punk.”

1978 - John Church, Gary Beckett, Ade Lawrence and Pippa Hodgson1978 - John Church, Gary Beckett, Ade Lawrence and Pippa Hodgson
1978 - John Church, Gary Beckett, Ade Lawrence and Pippa Hodgson

John is still friends with Ade and they played in a band together.

Ade worked on the dust carts for many years and also as a health care assistant at the hospital when Covid was at its height.

Gary emigrated to Australia, where he works as a project manager and Pippa now lives in Spain.

See them all up large at Chris’s Reunions exhibition at the Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 4pm.

It ends on Saturday, March 23.

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