Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Aero Pictorial in 2007 to English Heritage and as a result, copyright on Aero Pictorial's photography rests with them. The 2008 publication British Seaside Piers, by Chris Mawson & Richard Riding, was dedicated to Murrell as the book features a large number of aerial shots of piers drawn from the Aero Pictorial archive. Aero Pictorial Aero Pictorial Ltd was a British aerial photography company in operation between 1934–39 and then 1946-60. It was founded by Aerofilms photographer Cyril Murrell (1899–1958), and run more or less as a one-man band. In his later years, Murrell flew from Elstree Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. Pre-war photos