Collection of punk memorabilia on display

A collection of posters, fanzines and flyers started by a teenage punk more than 30 years ago is going on show in a new exhibition.

Designer Toby Mott, from London, started collecting the memorabilia as a young music fan in the 1970s.

The exhibition, which includes posters designed for the Sex Pistols by Jamie Reid, is at the Haunch of Venison gallery in central London.

Mr Mott said: “I began this collection as a teenager in the 1970s. I loved punk music and the attitude that went with it, but I was equally taken with the subversive way the bands promoted themselves – Jamie Reid’s famous Sex Pistols poster of the Queen with a safety pin through her nose being a stand-out example.

“But even then it was apparent to me that what was going on was much more than a musical movement. This exhibition seeks to capture punk’s cataclysmic collision with the cultural, social and political values of the time and show the enduring legacy it left in its wake.”

The collection also includes political material from the time, charting the rise of the far-right National Front and its opponents in Rock Against Racism.