THIS unidentified portrait, right, of another proud young man turned up some years ago among miscellaneous items at a jumble sale.
Presumably he was a drummer in an army cadet band.
Whoever took the photograph probably intended a vertical close-up of the drummer, but by including a horizontal context he or she has transformed a personal snapshot into a bit of social history.
The young man’s sparkling webbing and bulled boots could be described, in 1950s army jargon, as immaculate and this typical local street is equally neat – its flagstones free from weeds, cracks and litter, and with carefully whitened edges to the doorsteps.
The figure glimpsed in the open doorway – presumably his mother – may be wearing a ubiquitous ‘pinny’.
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