Image Description: A black and white landscape photograph showing two elderly women sitting at a table playing bingo. The light above places them in a spotlight and they look downward concentrating on their cards with pens in hand. A pair of glasses sits on the table alongside a bowl of bingo cards.
Community Archivist Laura McNamee talks about the photograph
Transcript
I just really love the character in the ladies’ faces, and the woman with the headscarf, and yeah, it just really captures a moment in time I think, its just really quite, quite special, and the lighting, which just really focuses in on the people.
Erm, I also love the fact that like they’ve got really focused on the bingo but then the ash tray hasn’t got any ash in it, its like full of bingo cards, and you can just see that they’ve just been having a really good time.
Quite nostalgic, it makes me…I can just imagine them being there and just having a really nice time and…yeah, I suppose I’ve kind of… as a young person when that was taken I wouldn’t have been interested in bingo, but since ive grown up over the years Ive got a bit more involved in it and I can just really imagine all the calls and, it just really conjures up lots pleasant memories so…yeah.
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