Unseen original photos of The Beatles taken by a member of the film crew shooting at two of the Fab Four's movies have been sold after coming to light right here in Coventry .

The snaps feature in an archive compiled by Edward Tucker during his decades working in the movie industry, including Beatles film's A Hard Day's Night and Help! Known as Ted or Teddy, Mr Tucker had a ringside seat to some iconic cinematic moments thanks to his role as grip – a technician responsible for building and maintaining equipment supporting cameras and other production gear on a film set.

His collection ended up at auction it was taken to a ‘Dealer Day’ at the Coventry Building Society Arena last month for a new series of hit ITV antiques programme Dickinson’s Real Deal.

After going under the hammer wit

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