Ron Ackers and Mick Bloor worked together in Battersea, London during the 1960’s

Photo here of the Battersea studio.

thanks for these lionel..it’s nice to see a bit of history and to see people working whome I never had the privelege to meet but have heard of for many many different reasons…great thread…

I’ll second that I’ll have to dig thru and see if I can find any photos from Henrys collection
I can remember him telling me when he started wearing gloves another artist commented “What’s the matter afraid of getting your hands dirty?”

lol it’s like two old boys who used the same bucket of water and sponge all day to wipe down customers lol….

all these memories are good ones to remember….come on lionel…write a book lol..I’ll buy it…

Hi Lionel, Nice one for putting these pics up mate.
Mick Bloor was my Dad(well Stepdad).
I don’t remember his studios in Battersea at all but i do remember watching him work at home in Southall Middlesex.
Some great memories there, especially seeing huge geezers fainting at the sight of the needles or when they heard the machines start up.
I had a dry (no ink) R done on my forearm when i was about 11 and didn’t want the scab to ever go, ‘cos i knew the R would dissapear.
I also wanted my name tattooed inside my bottom lip like Mick and Les had (my stepbrothers) but he wouldn’t do it ‘cos he knew i’d show everyone, and he’d get a pull from the law(i think they started to really crack down on the age limit in the 70s).
Anyway thanks again and if anybody has more stories i’d love to hear them as i was a bit young to know too much in them days.
If anyone has pics of his work, i’d love to see them as well.
Russ.

I remember whem Mick tattooed the inside of my bottom lip he kept laughing because parts of my face was twitching, He done my first tattoo an eagle in a boarded up old house in Greyshot road battersea and he done three others a dragon, a heart with mum and dad, and a red devil in his house in Inworth street. I have had the eagle, dragon, and heart reworked and sorry to say the devil was covered up. I found Mick to be a friendly person I also met Les his son when he was about 12 and then met him some years later through Micks ex wife (I think her name was Pat) and sold him some machines because he lost all his equipment in a fire in his flat. He was going to open a studio on St Johns hill battersea but for some reason it never opened. I remember Micks other son because he had a Lambretta the same colour as mine it was green but I never ever spoke to him.