General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

In the early 1950's, many things were in short supply. We still had food rationing.

When my grandad retired, he went on a spree of globe trotting. Common enough now, but it was not in the early 1950's, when air travel, if available , was anything but cheap. He always knew what to sell and what to buy in the various places he went.

When he came to stay with us, he would have cameras and Carl Zeiss (Jena) lenses, which he usually took to Elizabeth Wilding to sell.