But who was she? For whom was she working and who sent her to Lobatse for this occasion? The British High Commission optimistically asked me to try and provide background comment to seven photos, all of which were obviously taken in Lobatse, The photos had all been obtained from London and they are now on display in Gaborone. The information provided for each photo was terribly bad - which was surprising because official British government photos have always been meticulously described. But then there was no indication as to the origin of those few photos that I saw. Surely, there would have been dozens of shots taken by the Colonial office photographers who would have been visually recording every moment of the Royal Party's visit from its arrival on the battleship, Vanguard in Cape Town to its final exit from Salisbury/Harare , I suppose, by flight and thus without the Vanguard. But I may have got this wrong. These anniversaries do have a habit of creeping up on us without our being particularly aware. And we then, suddenly, realize, that there is so much that we should know, but don't. For instance, there is now a claim from Francistown that Haskins Street was tarred for the 1947 visit.
