Tuesday, 16 June 2026

'Young Love in Fragments' by D. X. Lewis

1. Diary entry 14 February 1949. "Took Jean to watch Fonteyn in R&J at Covent Garden. (Balcony, half a crown.) Shared tub of ice-cream (strawberry, sixpence). Walked her back to her hostel."

2. Crumpled black and white photo of a smiling young woman with curls.

3. Photo of a young man with spectacles in an RAF uniform.

4. Wedding photo with many smart-looking people on the bride’s side and fewer, less well-dressed, on the groom’s.

5. Faded wedding announcement from the Leek Bugle, 30 June 1951.

6. Photo of a young man with spectacles paddling in a black woollen one- piece swimming costume.

7. Photo of a baby boy in his mother’s arms.

8. Photo of a baby boy in his father’s arms.

9. Photo of all three.

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