Rhodesia, July 1960 |
 In the late afternoon, Phil Murray dropped Richard and me in Umtali, and we stayed overnight with my father’s former anaesthetics practice partner, Gerry Hochschild, and his wife Nan. I had run out of film and couldn’t afford to buy a new Kodachrome cassette, but Gerry kindly gave Richard and me a pound (the equivalent of 21 pounds sterling in 2017!), and on Wednesday morning, 13 July 1960, he drove us into Umtali where I bought a roll of black-and-white film, and – as a result – the final four photographs in this web-album are digitised versions of some of my black-and-white pictures. Gerry then dropped us on the road that heads south out of Umtali, and Richard and I started hitchhiking again. I noted in my diary that I had bought the black-and-white film “mainly for … |