One summer’s day in 1979, I was wandering along Camden Passage, a maze of little antique shops in Islington. There was a stall selling old magazines – and the cover of a Picture Post from 1945 caught my eye.
‘How much?’ I asked.
The dealer said that the magazine was one of a bundle, and he wasn’t prepared to split it. I’d have to buy the lot for ‘What shall we say? 35p?’
Even 45 years ago, that wasn’t a great deal of money.
The black-and-white photograph
