This is my grandad, Bob, standing outside the family garage in Three Mile Cross, Reading, in a photo developed in July 1973 according to the datestamp along the edge. Bob was Jack's slightly older brother.
What I find most fascinating is the road itself. In the distance, the road is rising up and bending slightly round to the right to junction 11 of the M4 motorway, which opened up to 18 months before this photo was taken. When the A33 Swallowfield Bypass was later opened in 1980, this road, Basingstoke Road, was redirected to the left to join it, approximately where the red car is in the distance, leaving a short, access-only section of road for residents.
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