Figure 1.--Here we se see Jack Summers with his friend Edgar Jones at Park Place in 1934. Click on the image to see Jack a few years later with another friend.. |
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Here we have two photographs of Jack Summers with two different school friends in 1934 and 1937. The photographs were taken at Park Parade in London. A street photographer apparently worked there for many years. His photographs had a mount with the label "Sunny Snaps". Apparently in the 1930s there were photographers who set up at different spots in London and other English cities. I think this was also common in other European countries. It seems to me I have noiticed these photoigraohers in French parks. I'm less sure about America, but have noted them at tourist locations. The photographer here seems to have just chosen a busy city street. I think this becane much less common after World War II. The first photograph showed Jack (1932-38) with Edgar Jones (1933-38) and a dog (figure 1). I'm not sure what the dates in parenthesis mean, perhaps the years the boys were at school. The photograph is un poor condition, but is a good example of these street photographs. Another photograph, apparently by the same street photograoher, shows Jack with Fred Adams (1933-38) a few years later in 1937. This photograph was also taken in Parl Parade and is marked "Royal Oak to the left". I'm not sure what Royal Oak means.
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