Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gorgeous tones - it seems an extraordinarily well preserved print! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:16 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > This didn't seem to hit the Lug. Another try. Douglas > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: IMG: First Class on British Rail > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 01:21:43 +0000 > From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> > To: lug at leica-users.org <lug at leica-users.org> > > > > My mother on her honeymoon in July 1948 about to board a Great Western > train at Paddington Station en-route to Cornwall, England. She was 24 at > the time. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Mother+Paddington+Station+July+1948.jpg.html > > Taken with a Voigtlander Bessa by my father Louis Barry. Can be seen > larger. > > I still have the camera. On a railway nerd issue, at this stage British > Rail were just over six months old being the state vehicle that all of > the old railway companies in Britain were merged into. However, the > rolling stock had not been repainted, so it was still in the old colours > of the particular constituent company relevant to the particular region. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >