Original Polaroid from the Silk Cut Cheesegrater Skyscraper Tickertape Parade photo shoot. Folded at the crop mark. Photograph collection of Robert Courtney.

Original Polaroid from the Silk Cut Cheesegrater Skyscraper Tickertape Parade photo shoot. At the top of the frame, you can see the lighting gantry where we dropped the ticker tape. It was incredibly hot up there! Photograph collection of Robert Courtney.

The model Solutions team is working on the Silk Cut Cheesegraters. Photograph by Robert Courtney.

It was surprisingly difficult at the time to find the archetypal cheesegrater to base the model on; I eventually found one at John Lewis, I think. I still have it in my kitchen cupboard. Photograph by Robert Courtney.