Sunday, May 12, 2013

Japan 1945-46: Hiroshima Images

Among my father's photographs from Japan 1945-46 I found these of Hiroshima. First the iconic  Hiroshima Commercial Museum; I took the same photograph more than 60 years later.  



The railway station.

Tortured steel, with "Hiroshima, worse bomb damage 1946" written on the back of the photograph.

The final picture is looking across a bridge onto the main city. I have never seen anything like this before. The damage to the buildings is clear but the perspective and angle of the photograph is new to me.

Stonehenge 1942

My father made his first visit to Stonehenge in around 1942 whilst in intensive training with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Here he is (on the right) with a fellow officer, both of them standing on one of the fallen menhirs at Stonehenge. There is another of Stonehenge itself and one showing him on a bridge overlooking a lake at a stately home in the south of England. The pictures are clearly taken in the winter.