TIME TRAVEL TO A LOST WORLD - COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF ENGLAND ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II taken by couple on their honeymoon

Photo Barney Britton

As they shared ice creams in the sunshine and picnicked in flower-filled meadows, the Britain newly-wedded couple Denys and Margaret Gardiner motored through in their Morris Eight must have seemed as enduring as the country scenes captured in their honeymoon photos.

But just weeks after their 900-mile round trip up and down the east coast of England in August 1939, the peace and tranquility of the country was to be shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War.

 

After years hidden away in Mrs Gardiner's attic, the incredible colour photos of the last days of peace, captured by Mr Gardiner's photography enthusiast cousin Eldred, have been uncovered and tell a wonderful story of love young and a journey through a lost Britain.  The pictures were discovered by the couple's grandson, Barney Britton, who was amazed at how clear the images still were after 70 years.

 

Publishing the photos on website DP Review, Mr Britton, himself a professional photographer, said: 'My mother vaguely remembered seeing colour pictures of her parents' honeymoon trip when she was a child but after several decades and multiple house moves, she presumed they had been lost.  'Not so - they were in my grandmother's attic all all along, and earlier this month we found them, while clearing out her house.'

 

Read more and see photographs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633669/Colour-photos-couples-honeymoon-road-trip-picture-Britain-outbreak-WWII.html

 

Mr Barney Britton's website

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/04/25/1939-england-in-color-part-1/1

 

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