Rarely seen photos of The Beatles discovered in hidden box
Rarely seen photographs of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the 1960s have been discovered in a box that lay unopened for 25 years. Husband and wife Stan and Betty Mallett, from Exeter, took the photographs whenever famous names visited Devon. The collection includes images of The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Billy Fury. Mr Mallett lived off his income from a job as an accountant and his wife was an RAC patrolwoman - but the couple worked together on their sideline business Photography by Mallett. The husband and wife team captured the great music high of the 1960s and dealt with publicity in and around the Exeter area, including the ABC, The Theatre Royal, Gaumont Exeter and the Odeon. Their son Frank, 68, who now lives in Essex, revealed his brother Steve found 500 images taken between 1961 and 1964 in an old box while looking for documents for the family tree.
Husband and wife Stan and Betty Mallett took hundreds of photographs of celebrities in the 1960s
Their children thought the images were lost after handing them to a historian after Stan s death in 1995
Son Steve recently found 500 images taken between 1961 and 1964 in a box that lay unopened for 25 years
The husband and wife team captured the musical hits of the 1960s and dealt with publicity around Exeter