A good friend of mine, railway photographer Peter Fitton, suggested I should send the attached photograph to you.
While not one of my best, it was taken with a 7/6d (35p) plastic Kodak 127 camera.
Hard to believe that trainspotters aged around 10 are standing on the cab roof or sitting on the top of the smokebox in this Derby Works open day picture when health and safety had never been heard of. TONY STEVENSON
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