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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: IMG: First Class on British Rail
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:04:31 -0600
References: <17b83f50-6a82-85d4-bce4-74b08f4c0c28@iol.ie> <291253f5-c611-3bd4-4f53-5c3485dd59d3@iol.ie>

Just post war and everyone still dresses up for travel.  Just a bit
different today.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:46 AM 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.
>
>
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-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com


Replies: Reply from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Fwd: IMG: First Class on British Rail)
In reply to: Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Fwd: IMG: First Class on British Rail)