Gallery
Carey Blyton, family and friends
Carey at around 10 months old
Carey at the seaside, around 3 years old
The Beckenham Salon (from left to right): Carey Blyton; Michael Hopkins, poet; David Roberts, photographer; David Munro, poet (seated); John Vosser, pianist and composer
Carey in his Beckenham Salon days
Carey receiving his BMus in his mid-20s
Carey at Canford Summer School of Music during his time on the staff of Mills Music, around 1960
Carey with his first son, Matthew
Carey with his second son, Daniel
Carey in his studio
[Photo: Kentish Times Ltd]
Carey with former pupil John Mitchell in the late 1980s
Carey with his aunts
Carey on his 60th birthday at Ripley, 14th March 1992
Carey at ‘Hawthornden’, Goldsel Road, Swanley, 30th June 1992, photographed by Frank Bayford
Carey looking at Carey (complete with bananas), Dartford Library, around 1995
Carey listening to a Dixieland Trio at his 70th birthday party in 2002
Mary Blyton, photographed in 2010 by John Mitchell
Carey Blyton & Friends
80th Anniversary Concert, 19th May 2012
Photos by Richard Hallas except where otherwise noted
The audience gathers outside The Warehouse, Theed Street, London
Concert reception desk with programmes and newly-updated Carey Blyton interview booklets; music magazines containing adverts for this concert are also on show
Scores of works by Carey Blyton and others, published by Fand Music Press, were on sale at the event
Also available was a range of CDs of Carey’s music
Ready to start the concert
During the performance
[Photo: John Mitchell]
Applause at the end of the concert
Katharine Durran, piano (left)
and Alison Smart, soprano (right)
[Photo: John Mitchell]
Katharine Durran, piano (left)
and Alison Smart, soprano (right)
[Photo: John Mitchell]