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Just walkin' by.....

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In October 2015, whilst trawling the internet researching London OZ magazine and its art director Australian Martin Sharp (1942-2013), I came across the following photograph from June 1967:   Martin Sharp and Bill Slough, King's Road, London, June 1967. Photographer: John Hendy. The photograph showed two unidentified men sitting outside a restaurant in the King's Road, London. The one on the left had a thickish head of hair, a mustache, circular, tinted glasses and wore a thick, embroided lamb's wool jacket. He was drinking coffee and held a cigarette in his right hand. The other had a thicker crop of scruffy hair, was dressed in a dark jacket with handkerchief in his pocket and wearing dark striped pants. He was reading a newspaper, had obviously finished drinking his coffee, and some cigarette papers were laying on the table in front of him, beside a pack of Old Holborn tobacco. Behind them a man was standing in a doorway, perhaps watching passers-by a