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Title: More Rykenberg photographs have been digitised
Post by: Helenw52 on Saturday 13 October 18 02:29 BST (UK)

More Rykenberg photographs have been digitised and added to Heritage Images. Click on the 'Latest additions - last 60 days' link to have a browse. http://bit.ly/2QKPEmf

Title: Re: More Rykenberg photographs have been digitised
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 13 October 18 03:41 BST (UK)

I'm dying laughing here:-

some pages (obviously from the same event) in this sequence from 1959.  Captioned thus

Showing a man standing, reading a speech from a piece of paper

Showing a man handing a woman a present

Showing a man in a suit kneeling on a large pillow, possible at a company function

Showing a man kneeling in front of another man who is reading a speech

Showing a man placing a large, homemade(?) medal around a kneeling man's neck

Showing a man holding a sword in front of a man who is kneeling

Showing a man placing a sword on a kneeling man's shoulder

Showing a man lifting a large medal on a chain over his head

Showing two men shaking hands, with a man holding a sword behind them

Showing a man with a large medal around his neck holding a piece of paper

Showing a man with a large medal around his neck

Title: Re: More Rykenberg photographs have been digitised
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 13 October 18 03:45 BST (UK)

Showing a smiling man who has unwrapped his present, which is a cabbage. People near him are smiling.