West Country 4-6-2 34027 Taw Valley Ilfracombe 3 8 1954

This is another holiday related shot. We had exchanged our house near the Cathedral in Wells with a Vicarage high in the upper reaches of Ilfracombe. My four year old sister, complaining that her legs were shorter than everyone else's as we climbed the hill back from the beach, remarked 'This is a really silly place to put a hill!.