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Photograph·pht_GH_0053·c.1958

With Ria at Kyrenia castle

With Ria at Kyrenia castle
Photograph: c.1958. pht_GH_0053. "With Ria at Kyrenia castle". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

English, as on the record

Black and white photograph of a young man and woman, carrying picnic supplies, with the walls of Kyrenia castle behind them

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Inscribed on the back: Yours truly and Ria: a Dutch girl who looks after a local [Mayors] children - quite nice actually - Kyrenia Castle in the background - built by the Turks in the C 14.

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