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John Adams died last week at Colchester Hospital aged 80 after a short illness. He had worked in Essex for several decades on papers including the Gazette, the Essex County Standard and the Clacton Gazette and Harwich and Manningtree Standard. Mr Adams was born in Kent, the youngest of four children. The family moved to the Ship Hotel in Burnham when John was eight and they ran the hotel for several years. As a teenager, Mr Adams moved to St Albans to work in a photography shop before moving back to Burnham with his first professional camera. He set out as a freelance photographer developing images in the bathroom of his family home.