Grimsby Telegraph photographer Bob Pick has retired.

He has spent 37 years in the profession, joining the Telegraph's sister paper in Scunthorpe as a darkroom assistant in November 1964.

Since then he has snapped hundreds of thousands of faces, and covered every event possible, from charity cheque presentations to the Queen's recent visit to his home town of Scunthorpe.

Bob Pick

Bob (54) joined the Grimsby Telegraph as a trainee photographer after a year at Scunthorpe, and has worked from Telegraph House in Cleethorpe Road ever since.

He started in the days of the old glass plate cameras, and has progressed through the darkroom days to colour, and more recently to digital imaging using digital cameras, laptops, and mobile phones to send images ready for the day's editions.

His avid reading of instruction manuals has helped him adapt easily to new technology, although he admits he found the leap from colour film to digital the hardest.

He said: "When I started we were using the old glass plate cameras. They were quite good, and you got a decent picture from them.

"Everything has changed so much since, and I did find the digital cameras difficult at first. There were no computers when I was at school, which made it more difficult."

Bob is looking forward to his retirement, and is hoping to move to Northumbria with his wife Caroline.

To mark his retirement Bob was presented with a set of Waterford Crystal wine glasses and Waterford photograph frame with a picture of his colleagues as a memento.

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