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Tying the knot: a gallery of weddings

Getting hitched. Tying the knot. For those who walk down the aisle it's a big event, one way or another. And there's usually somebody there taking pictures so the wedding can be remembered, for better or worse. My collection contains a lot of wedding photos from a variety of places and times. Here's a selection of noteworthy images from interesting weddings. Joining the smile high club Sydney surveyor John Nicholls and his kindergarten teacher bride Elenor Simpson took a fancy to the idea of being married in an aeroplane flying 1000m above the ground. It was…

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Board with games: when childhood was slow

I've wondered, recently, what on Earth I did with my time when I was a little child. Seeing the manic smorgasbord of potential entertainment options for the very young these days makes me suppose my own distant early childhood must have been exceedingly dull by comparison. There was no internet, no instant access to streaming videos on mobile phones and way fewer toys than are around today. Television turned up in our family when I was about four or five, but its offerings for children were limited and my parents rationed it - at first, anyway.…

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Doubly foreign: vintage photographic souvenirs

If the past is another country, then the past of another country might be doubly foreign, I guess. When I travel overseas I'm naturally drawn to flea markets and vintage stores and among the things I like to buy are photographs and negatives. In dusty cabinets in old stores, on cluttered blankets on the ground at flea markets, at fetes and village yard sale days I hope to see them: tatty paper pouches of old negs and snapshots, cardboard boxes full of glass plate negs or old photo albums. Sometimes particular photo albums excite me enough…

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