P.C.Thorne coaching schoolchildren in road-crossing drill. Identified children are, left to right, at back, Margaret Richards, n.k., n.k., Kathleen Matthews, Susan Lanham, Derek Bursh, n.k., n.k., Alan Blackman, Olivia Woodfield, front row, Peggy Whitear, Judith Stokes, Peter Dene, Judith Stokes, Peter Dean, Leslie Blackman, John Hatchett, Barry Cole, Hazel Goddard.
In 1949, .the New York Sunday News sent a photographer to record the life of a typical village policeman in an England recovering from World War II.PC Thorne was the village policeman in East Meon and these carefully posed photographs show the image the magazine wanted of a plucky English post-war village. In 2007, his son Martin Thorne discovered the photographs, which were featured in the Mail on Sunday, BBC South and elsewhere.
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