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Stonehenge stirs memories

Your article about Stonehenge in Issue 231, February 2022, was lovely and a reminder to bring out my grandmother’s photograph (see right) which was taken there in the late 1940s or early 1950s. It is my treasured photo.

I’m originally from Shipley, but my parents moved us to Canada in my

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