On the back of this sepia portrait of an unknown girl is a studio stamp that states: “W Buckley, Portrait Specialist, 28 August 1916, Regent Square, Blackpool.” There is something quite beautiful about the portrait – William Rawlinson Buckley was a celebrated Blackpool photographer – and something that is so resonant of the time. This, after all, is 1916: the girl may have been employed in one of the numerous munitions factories, and the men in her life will have been in the trenches.
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