The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

1920 Unpublished

This photograph is simply identified as ‘Sussex Cottages’. The presence of the car and the slightly bored-looking driver, wearing a uniform and a peaked cap, parked outside the door of such modest houses is rather surprising. The car’s numberplate reveals that it is visiting from Stanmore in north London.

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