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|Summer 2017
Banbury Market Place, Oxfordshire
The picture above comes from The English Hoard, a collection of Victorian and Edwardian photos taken from a series of glass slides by Jeff Krotz (Matador Publishing, 184pp, hardback, £36). It is said every picture paints a thousand words but in reality, depending on the image of course, photos can paint far more than that, both in a geographical and historical manner. This urban picture is a delightful everyday image of Banbury in 1908, just before the combustion engine changed the roads for ever.
In this slice of social history we see two ladies chatting to a g
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