The group
For this group of smartly dressed young men, a walk in Blenheim Park at Woodstock was usually on the Sunday afternoon agenda.
They would put on their Sunday best – suits and ties – and enjoy a breath of fresh air. On this occasion, in the 1950s, one of their number, John Cummings, photographed them with his Kodak camera on the stepping stones in the park.
They are, left to right, Cyril Berry, Maurice Payne, Ron Phanders, David Danbury, Peter Thorne, Willy Berry, Nipper Gilham, Christopher Stockford, Tony Smith and Peter Dempsey.
Mr Cummings, of Westland Way, Woodstock, recalls: “After leaving the park, we would go home for tea, then go to the Sterling cinema at Kidlington in the evening.”
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