95 year old photography amateur, Fred – Londoner #254
[Music] my mum was a larger and more dead words the son of the house and the inevitable happens you know so there was a pregnancy and living in a respectable Street the family could not be seen with a pregnancy don't know so we got some rejected I think and moved up to Hong ji Road I [Music] was not very happy with domesticity this is too strong a word but I say or despise the way of life of my father he was concerned with the he was coming on a Friday and put the money in coins on the table that's what actually gasps that's the insurance that's the housekeeping and so on although what a boring bloody work life you know so I had that background of wanting to be free the wall came along that started as you well know September 1939 where I was in the Army for five and a half years when you are living in discomfort you know you wet it no I don't all that sort of thing and irregular food but those are the types of life that are satisfying in some way which I certainly told saboteur we're not going to the commandos I had earned myself and adventure holiday and though I really enjoyed that do it right away from the rest of life and there you are sleeping and don't do what you like you know when I came back from the army one of the first things I did was to spend 70 pounds on a context camera with an f2 lens I'll go to the Prince of Wales Theatre when I had what they called review in those days it was some tricky genteel and semi intellectual upper class entertainment so I had these two branches coming along together without being realized that John photography and theater no more Wars everybody is happy this unity throughout the world riadi photographers a hobby and it's not much of a hobby if it doesn entirely engaged your attention and your ingenuity and your critical faculties to get it right so this is the element or do things that a hobby and alright to make it hard or to be fussy in my way click the videos to watch more Londoners and don't forget to subscribe
