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Grandfather really liked his Rover...!
This is another rather excellent photograph and yet I think that it's fairly evident that he didn't take it himself, unless the camera was sitting on a windowsill and set on its buzzing clockwork timer mechanism...
But my (...!) the fellow's certainly looking rather dapper here, isn't he? That rakish colourful shirt, that wide tie, and that natty three-piece dark suit speak very much of his musician's ways, although the big black car and stern face might suggest something of the spiv, the gangster, or maybe, just maybe, the debt collector rolling up to the kerbside and putting the fear of God into some poor householder.
All faces which the rest of us knew well from time-to-time.
The old smoothie...
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, by the way, this and the next few photographs were either taken in Lincolnshire or Northampton in 1957, but I'm not sure whether that's the case or which it might be, if either, because I'm pretty sure I've never been to wherever it is (at least not at an age that I have any memories of).
Zo Mr Bond, ve meet again... He wasa man of many layers Martin.
ReplyDeleteThat hedge is immaculate by the way Martin. As is his Windsor knot.
ReplyDeleteThis was taken at Auntie Lils and Uncle Hedleys place in Lincolnshire. Spalding, to be exact and just down the road from Ledden Hall where their son George was the Gamekeeper! Happy days!
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