Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 1964

Margot Fonteyn presents Award to Young Skegness Photographer

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
`Junior’ award for Skegness girl
WHAT was it like ? What did she say to you ? What was on the menu ? Questions like these faced one of Britain’s Junior Photographers of the Year, 15-year-old Anne Toyne, 62 Hoylake Drive, Skegness when she went back to school on Thursday of her receiving her award from Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Savoy Hotel, London, the previous day.
A senior pupil of the Lumley School, Anne knew she had won a major prize in the Junior Photographers of the Year competition in which 900 school children from all over Britain entered, but she had to wait until the prize presentation at the Savoy to learn that her colour transparency had been judged the best in the colour section.
Waiting for the winners to be announced was a “bit tense at the time,” Anne recalled. “All the reporters knew the results, but we were kept in suspense until the announcements were made.”
Anne received her prize, a statuette, from Dame Margot Fonteyn, the ballerina, who also presented to her a £20 cheque for the school £20 for herself and an assortment of diplomas. Then it was Anne’s turn to make a presentation to Miss Fonteyn an album containing all the prizewinning photographs from the competition.

RUSSIAN COMEDIAN
The excitement was still not over, for Anne and Mr. A. R. Brereton, the master in charge of the Lumley School Camera Club who accompanied her to London, were whisked off by a “Daily Express” photographer to a B.B.C. television studio, where Anne took a photograph of Russian comedian, Arkadi Raiken, for inclusion in the “Express” of the following morning.
Returning home by train that night, Anne could look back on her experiences and think of all the wonderful things she would have to tell her friends at school the following morning. What was it like ?—”It was super.” “What did she say to you ?” “Congratulations.” What was on the menu ?—”Well, it was all in French, but it was steak and ice-cream really !”