Letter: YourSay - PicOfThePast; More nostalgia every Saturday in your Evening Telegraph.(Letters)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: March 22, 2006 | Copyright information

READER Bill Sutton sent in this picture that was taken by his father Alf when Cobhams Flying Circus visited ...

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