Ipswich Town and Colchester United photographer to retire

Mr Page started off his career as a press officer for a local team, taking photos of the matches and writing up reports before he moved into sole photography.

He said the industry had changed a lot in his career partly thanks to advances in digital photography.

“My lovely wife used to sit in the car outside the old Layer Road ground and 10 minutes before kick off I would run into the ground and photograph as much as I could for the first 15 minutes because we had no processing facilities in Colchester,” he explained.

“I would drive back to Ipswich, run into a dark room and we had the whole black and white processing by hand, film on a spool in the dark and I look back now and wonder why there were only five or six photos for any particular game.

“Whereas now for a game, like the Coventry game, I sent 59 pictures through.”