We also went and toured Eton which I thought was kind of boring.
Eton courtyard
Eton Guide
Chapel at Eton
Library? as we were coming out of Eaton College
Eton college - 1950
At the end of the trip, we took a boat train to Southampton and boarded the Nieuw Amsterdam Most of the photos...
We took a day trip out of London to Windsor.
Windsor from distance
Guard at Windsor
Statue at Windsor
Windsor
Windsor
Windsor
Windsor
From Windsor turret
The main thing I remember was seeing the Dowager Queen's Dollhouse which I thought was fascinating. We had to stand in line to...
We went to Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham palace Guard
Me and my sister with the Guard at Buckingham Palace
My dad took the obligatory photo of us standing next to the sentry with his bearskin hat. He took a movie also at at the end, you see my sister...
buckingham palace
changing of the guard
greatbritain
hampton court
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tower of london
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visiting europe 1950
early morning - leaving Scotland
We drove back to London. My mother had a conversation with a Scotsman about his kilt
Scotsman
Scotsman in his kilt
and one of the sheep in Scotland ate some of our picnic lunch.
sheep in Scotland
sheep eating our lunch
unfinished sculpture of ram -...
U=Drive it car in Scotland
I know we visited Scotland because we have the photos, but I do not remember much about this part of the trip.
I think we tried Haggis. Of course we had to visit the castle and see the monument to Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Monument to Sir Walter Scott...
We continued going north. We had a Royal Automobile Club tag on our car and there were periodic phone booths by the road for people to phone the Automobile Club if they had car trouble. There were also men on motorcycles who road around on the roads - troubleshooters for the Auto Club. There...
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