Hardly ever will a picture more accurately represent a period in motorcycling history than this wonderfully evocative image, originally published in the June 27, 1946 edition of The Motor Cycle.
There’s scant detail with its reproduction, simply captioned; “A club under canvas : A glimpse of the Southampton and DMCC camping members, who spent Whitsun in the grounds of Mr Wilson, The Lodge, Tiverton, as his guests.” The reverse of the original picture affords little details either, apart from a photographer’s stamp (‘S Brown, 3 Bampton Street, Tiverton’) and the pencilled instruction ‘Pay’ written in front of it.
In July 2020, 3 Bampton Street (a five-storey building) was up for auction, the ground floor – one would imagine the site of Mr Brown’s photography business – an estate agents, with…
