The picture shows Keith with his cousins Christopher and David Clarke. Keith is on the left, being held in check by sister Sue aged 11. The photograph was taken at 'Linwood', Wistaston, near Nantwich - the suburban house occupied by Meg after she left Loughton, Essex in early 1944.
I have a sense of resistant and diffident boys, adrift from missing or aloof fathers - the generation of young men that later cut loose in the 1960s as they discovered their own (in the case of these cousins, very different) paths.
P.S. A tinge of envy still at David's Bus Conductor's ticket-clipper - toys were in very short supply!
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