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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: The three musketeers This photograph was taken on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath in 1947 for Picture Post magazine and is captioned on the back, "Russian war bride number 1". It was taken five years after my parents' miraculous escape from Russia via Archangel on the returning British convoys. It is a snapshot of my childhood.It shows my father, John Murray, a courier and former cipher clerk during the second world war at the British e...

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