Hebden Bridge Grammar School football team 1947 –’48. Sir Bernard, seated first right, started his career in journalism not long after this photo was taken. Taken at the Alice Longstaff Studio, West End, Hebden Bridge. Old code No. AT002 ALGC.
With Betty Boothroyd, former speaker of the House of Commons. The launch took place at Salt's Mill, Saltaire. The book was published by Dalesman in 2005.
About to board a light aircraft at Yeadon Airport for a flight over the Calder Valley. The flight was organised by Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society and Bernard went as a reporter for the Hebden Bridge Times.
The then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talks to then-Bristish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during their joint press conference in Moscow on June 8, 1990
The book, entitled 'Kill the Messenger', explains how he came to hold the job of Chief Press Secretary and diaries his association with Mrs Thatcher from the Faulklands War to the Westland Helecopter Scandal, and her final hours at Downing Street.