Beatles photos up for auction

LONDON: Seven black-and-white photographs of the Beatles sitting on a grassy field, taken by a teenage girl on the last day of filming for their 1965 movie Help!, will be sold today, the auctioneer said.

Gwyn Blanchard, then a 13-year-old student, trudged half an hour in the rain with a group of friends to the set of the Fab Four's second film, hoping for an autograph, but wound up being invited for a chat with her idols.

As the teenagers were walking towards the set, the Beatles drove by in their car and then went into their trailer. Blanchard and her friends decided to stand outside.