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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My mother's pilgrimage to RomeThis is a photograph of my mother, Mary McCarthy, on her way to Rome in 1950. Her love of travel had already led her from the rural farming community in Ireland where she was born, to live and work in London in the early 1940s, and this pilgrimage across Europe, only five years after the end of the war, appealed to her adventurous spirit.From her weekly wage of £8, she saved the £29 and 10 shillings price ...

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