Photograph courtesy Christopher Henn
It’s 2.03 pm on a beautiful, sunny, late summer day, the 25th August 1952 and an express train races across Sulgrave embankment. The photographer, standing at the end of Little Street, peers through the viewfinder and presses the button on his camera. Click, the above photograph is taken.
Once upon a time, this would have been the limit of our knowledge about the photograph, but the age of information technology has changed all that.
The 1952 timetable shows that the train was the “South Yorkshireman” which had left Bradford, hardly in South Yorkshire, at 10 am bound for London Marylebone, via Huddersfield, Sheffield, Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Rugby and Aylesbury.
A framed copy of the photograph was kindly loaned by Christopher Henn. Research into the photograph by Sulgrave villager and author Chris Behan is set out above and continues on the next page.
