In 1951 Valerie and I went to the Festival of Britain exhibition on a site on the south bank of the River Thames in London, now the site of the Festival Theatre. It was an exhibition of British made goods, a very much larger version of the earlier Britain can make it exhibition at the British Museum, and was the hundredth anniversary of the Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park in 1851. It was a dull overcast day with intermittent drizzling rain, not ideal for photography. I had my 1930 Ranca, 16 on 127, with me loaded with, I think, Panatomic X rated at about 64 ASA. We were on a balcony similar to the one at the top right of the picture, and I wanted to take a picture of this big locomotive built for Indian Railways. I wanted to stop down to about f/11 to get a good depth of field, and estimated the exposure at about 1 second. I was trying to prop the camera on the railing of the balcony when another amateur photographer came along and very kindly offered to lend me his tripod for the shot. Photographers are a brotherhood the world over. With the tripod I got the best picture I took that day. Development would have been in my usual ID11.