Hans Richard took a train from Kiel to Bad Bentheim, on the Dutch border, on 21 August, 1954.
At the time he was renting a room in Kiel at Nietzscherestr., fairly close to the main Kiel train station and waterfront.

Drying socks for England. Glimpses of his stripey socks are seen in some of the photographs of Hans Richard taken in London. If he found himself homesick for a Bratwurst whilst in London he would have had quite a search, even in Soho, where many of the delicatessens were Italian or French.
En route he changed trains at the Hamburg Haupbahnhof. He used the three hour wait to catch a S Bahn train to nearby Landungsbrücken by the Elbe, and walked along to Uberseebrücke

“Passierender Frachter.” Passing freighter. (The MV Hazelmoor. Foreground right, unidentified sailing ship – possibly the Rickmer Rickmers museum ship, berthed at Landungsbrüchen)
He travelled on from Hamburg to Bad Bentheim, and then through Holland by train to the Hook of Holland.

Evening was becoming night. (Print discoloured, possibly by poor fixing and/or old photographic paper stock)

Morning on the Duke of York, approaching England. Hans Richard notes that he slept on the seat shown, under the stars. An irony is that The Duke of York, renamed the Duke of Wellington during the Second World War was involved in the Dieppe commando raid, 14 August, 1942, and also took part in the Allied Normandy Landings in 1944, against German occupied France.
Harwich Railway station, waiting for the train to London.
He had already photographed her discretely in the railway compartment travelling to the Hook of Holland. Now he talks to her on the platform at Harwich station. They travel in the same compartment to London. He takes another photograph and he asks for her address, presumably to send the prints to. She writes it for him: Sandra, living in Cardiff, Wales.
Arriving in London he goes to what seems is a London School of Languages Host – Mrs Engelmann – for a night or two, before he begins his look for lodgings.

“I. Quartier: Putney, Atney Rd., (Mrs Engelmann)” First accommodation, Putney, Atney Road. (The young woman standing at the entrance may be Kathrinchen Schröder. See Chapter 2).
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Next: 2: First Days, A trip to Hampton Court Palace, and looking for lodgings in Notting Hill Gate.
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Hello Marilyn,
Yes, feel free to use photos from London Town 54. I just ask that you give the source/link to londontown54.com on the DVD/DVD cover. It would be nice for me to have a copy of the DVD too when it is completed. Incidentally, I was nine when Hans Richard Griebe took those photos, and living just outside London. Incidentally have you seen lendarlinggirl.com
the correspondence between mother and daughter in the 1940s that I also have online?
Best wishes with your work, Pete.
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Dear Pete,
I am a director of Bonnie Day Limited, a social enterprise that provides wonderful activity sessions for older people in care homes (and in their own homes).
We are in the opening stages of putting together a poetry DVD about 1950s nostalgia and reminiscence.
We have visited your collection of images – a colossal amount of work (we greatly enjoyed perusing the images, thank you). A great many of the pictures are very relevant to the topics discussed in care homes with older people.
Accordingly, we are writing to ask whether we could have permission to use a small selection of the images in the DVD we are producing to bring these scenes to life for an older audience who do not have access to the internet, but would still get tremendous pleasure from the images.
For a flavour of what we are trying to achieve, you can view an early video we have produced here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxj0lSvokc.
Very many thanks,
Marilyn McGregor
Director
Bonnie Day Limited
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