Dusty Springfield, photographed on 12 April 1967 at John d Green’s Kensington studio. This photograph appeared on the front cover of Dusty Springfield's third album, Where Am I Going, released in October 1967. A print is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. John recalls the shoot: “Dusty Springfield is an interesting story. She rang to say she could only give me half and hour. So I tested the background and exposure, lighting, etc using my assistant in preparation for the shoot. Dusty arrived at the studio and we spent half an hour taking the pictures. A couple of rolls of film and that was it. I expected her to rush home, but she didn't go. Four hours later, after endless cups of coffee, she was still there. She needed a shoulder and it happened to be mine, telling me her life story. She was a very lovely talented girl.”

Here’s British actress Hayley Mills, photographed by John d Green on 5 December 1966 at his Kensington studios for Birds of Britain. She was twenty when the photograph was taken. The union jack mini-dress predates Spice Girl Geri Halliwell’s by three decades. If that wasn’t British enough, Hayley drinks brown ale from a traditional dimpled pint glass. The out-takes from the session show that brown ale probably wasn’t her favourite tipple. Don’t you love how the bottle sits primed like a space rocket on the ornate table alongside? Note how because this was not an advertising shoot, John turned the label on the bottle down so as not to promote the brand. This is one of the photographs in John d Green’s Birds of Britain exhibition, available to purchase as a signed limited edition for the first time. Hayley comes in a range of four sizes to suit every wallspace.