{"id":1262,"date":"2004-05-05T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:20:21","slug":"grays-of-westminster-in-the-company-of-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/grays-of-westminster-in-the-company-of-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Grays of Westminster &#8211; In The Company of legends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Book launch for Grays of Westminster &#8211; In The Company of legends.<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/grays-invite-2004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/grays-invite-2004.jpg 664w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/grays-invite-2004-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With Guest speakers David Suchet (below) and Gary Coward Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/david-suchet.jpg 1794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also got to meet one of my photography heroes, the late Sir Simon Marsden (below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/simon-marsden.jpg 1797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was held in the Private dining room of Quaglino&#8217;s in Bury Street London<br> We were all given a copy of the book. I managed to get mine autographed by just about everyone who was at the event who&#8217;d had a quote in the book.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/pete-with-nikon.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,27],"tags":[960,322,957,958,959,956],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-press-events","tag-david-suchet","tag-gary-coward-williams","tag-grays-of-westminster","tag-in-the-company-of-legends","tag-quaglinos","tag-sir-simon-marsden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}