When I was a little boy growing up in a working class district of south London I thought that rich people only came from the so-called upper classes.
Then at the end of the war, I read of a virtually uneducated man who made millions of pounds out of scrap metal. At that point I realized that you didn’t have to be ‘posh’ to be rich, but riches might make you posh!
I photographed this gate post outside a house in one of Sydney’s most exclusive semi-rural suburbs: Bayview. It reminded me of that scrap metal dealer; once he’d made his pile he didn’t care a damn about anybody!
© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz
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- The Rat Trap Re-visited
- Vulcan Hotel, St.Bathans
- Goldfields Hotel, Roxburgh
- Read It Quickly
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