Tributes to former Shropshire Star photographer Eddie Salter
Tuesday 21st December 2010, 11:09AM GMT.
A former Shropshire press photographer has died at the age of 87.
Edgar Salter, known as Eddie, died from pneumonia on Thursday.
Today his family paid tribute to a “lovely man”.
Mr Salter was chief photographer for the Shrewsbury Chronicle & Shropshire Journal and later the Shropshire Star. He was employed from 1957 to 1987, when he retired.
He continued to work part-time for the Shropshire Star for another four years.
As well as photography he played bowls and was a member of Severnside Bowling Club for 22 years.
His daughter Sue Green said he put 30 years of love and hard work into the newspaper industry.
Mr Salter joined the RAF just before World War II broke out.
It was while in the RAF that he learned photography.
He met his wife Constance Gwendoline at a dance at the Morris Hall in 1948 and they were married in 1949. They had two children, Sue and Roy, and three grandchildren, Jessica, Abigail and Lucy.
Roy Salter said: “In 1965 he was at the Chelsea v Shrewsbury match at Stamford Bridge. The fans cheered his name when he walked around the pitch.”
Mrs Green said: “He photographed the Queen, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Cilla Black when they came to Shrewsbury.”
The funeral will be at Shrewsbury crematorium on December 29 at 2.40pm.
A collection will be held for the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
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RIP Eddie, a legendary local photographer. I hope that Shropshirestar.com will publish an online album of his best images (and I don’t mean five or ten, let’s have hundreds!) or maybe even a book.
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thankyou for your comments it was a comfort to read this and yes Dad was indeed a legendary photographer and many generations of families will i am sure remember him. when we used to go anywhere with him everyone stopped to chatand it was a constant source of joy to him that he was so well known, respected and loved in the town.i love your idea and i think we shall do something along those lines if possible he would be so proud. Please comment if you knew Dad i would love to hear your memories of him if he photographed you at some point – i guess that applies to three quarters of the population of the town! we miss him so much x
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