Wednesday 13 March 2019

An Outer Station Reception Fit for the Queen

While we waited for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to arrive at the Outer Station in the summer of 1973, my Dad photographed this platform scene, and my brother diligently scanned his slide.

Bunting had been draped from the eaves.  The guard of honours was shuffling and dressing its ranks into place in the parking lot. Even the semaphores seem to stand at attention.

And of course that kid is on a banana-seat bike. It was the seventies, after all!

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