Britain on the eve of war: Photographs from the Summer of 1939

Here I present an album of photographs of Britain on the eve of the Second World War. In the early summer of 1939, Margaret and Denys Gardiner, married. For a honeymoon they chose to tour East Anglia, the Fenlands and Yorkshire in their Morris 8 Convertible, along with their cat, Edgar. The trip was documented by the couple s cousintwiceremoved, Eldred, an accomplished These wonderful photographs, curtesy of Barny Britton, the couple s grandson, give a wonderful impression of the Engli