Retro
YET another postcard from the Audley Street studio of Mr HA Giles, probably dating from the 1930s.
Mr Giles may not have been a great photographer from a technical point of view, but he was definitely a snapper of unconsidered trifles – he photographed many everyday subjects which other photographers wouldn’t have looked at twice.
Does May Day fun fair well in your memory? 
THIS week’s Retro picture shows school children celebrating May Day in the early 1930s.
IN THE past this column has featured a bottle of Butler’s “Mountain Wine,” and this week, we have a bottle of “Reading Festival Ale,” brewed and bottled at the Seven Bridges Brewery by Courage (Central) Ltd, and kindly given to me by a friend, unopened, together with a glass-bottomed tankard won as a prize on the shooting gallery at the Festival Fair, which was held on Christchurch Meadows.
ANOTHER postcard (above) of people in fancy dress this week, but fancy dress with a difference.
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