I've had another of those lovely unexpected messages, when a person not known to me recognises themselves in one of my photographs. In this case it's the charming little baby in the pram, who's now a 40 year old lady living in London. (And still charming, I'm sure!) She wrote to tell me she'd seen herself and her dad in my Café Royal photo-book and cried when she saw it. "My dad," she said, "was 30 in this picture and he's now 70! Not doing too well health wise and this is such a special shot, it really moved me."
Well, that moved me too, and I was so pleased she got in touch. I love it when history comes to life again. When my random wanderings capture something that brings joy to someone's life. I mean, think about it. For forty years this lady didn't know this photograph existed, and now here she is, enthralled once again by her dad's tooting on a toy trumpet!
Music to my ears!
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