A former Plymouth Evening Herald photographer has been looking back at his career as he gets ready to celebrate 60 years of married life.

Rowland Squier and his wife Winifred will soon be celebrating their Diamond wedding anniversary.

The pair met in the early 1930s, when Rowland was an apprentice on the Herald.

He said: "I enjoyed working for the Herald. I guess it was the foundation of my career.

"Everything went on from there. I took so many pictures over the years but many of my favourites were taken while I worked in Plymouth.

"I remember taking pictures of the shipwreck of the four-masted sailing ship the Hertzogin Cecile, which ran aground off Start Point in the 1930s.

"There was also the time when I drove up to Princetown after a prisoner had escaped and ended up arriving just as he was being led back into the prison."

Following his training at the Herald, Rowland worked in London, Wales, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Scotland before retiring as a photographer for the Royal Naval Admiralty Photographic Service in Plymouth.

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