I have grown used to seeing photographs in The Times which produce a reaction of Goodness me! How strange that world looks - & yet it looked perfectly normal when I was in it.
But those were all pictures from the days when I was young - the 1940s, 50s or 60s; perhaps just one from the 1970s.
It was a real jolt to have that reaction to one which, it turned out, was from 1981.
Sadly it was illustrating the obituary of Colin Heald, former prison governor, & shows a group of about a dozen men escorting Prince Charles on a visit to Dartmoor.
Those suits! Braces! Watch chain! Top pocket hankies! A uniformed prison officer who could have stepped out of an Ealing comedy.
Well at least there are no women to make me cringe even more at the thought of what I & my friends might have looked like in those days.
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