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27 July 2017

Thur

One is starting to feel quite sorry for Janet and Iris! Maybe there were hundreds of other photographs that have not survived, but the girls feature in almost all of those that still exist nowadays. The house in Headington was run by five servants, yet there are apparently  no photographs of them. Or of Mr Laing. Here is a complete list of the 27 extant photographs held in the archive: no servants, dogs, husbands or bicycles among them.

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