LETTER OF THE WEEK
One for the archives
Sometime in the late 1950s or in very early 1960s, a friend of my family, Mr Maurice Norman, took some photographs of my uncle in his punt-gun on the Dee Marshes. Mr Norman subsequently sent one of the photographs (right) to Shooting Times, which used the photograph as the cover picture for an edition of the magazine. My father, a founder member of the Dee Wildfowlers in 1952, kept that particular edition, which was eventually given to my uncle.
Unfortunately, my uncle has now died and the copy of the magazine cannot be found; it is presumed lost. I have made searches on eBay and the magazine’s own