This is the second of two photographs taken by Lee Miller on 27 May 1950 for a feature in Picture Post entitled 'Travel Light at Whitsun'. This time the train is a little further south and Lee Miller has turned to face south accordingly. It does seem it was desired to have the locomotive in both photographs. The two ladies have changed position so in both photographs the lady with the dark skirt is to the left. This is a subtle continuity trick once used by many photographing for publications. Prewar, ladies handbags tended to be square or rectangular but more angular designs appeared toward the end of the 1930s and continued into the postwar period until squared-off designs came back into fashion. One of the angular designs is seen here. On the right the running-in board quite obviously displays more than just 'Horam'. Throughout its life the station name was juggled around and at the time of this photograph it would have announced 'Waldron & Horam'. Horam was once spelled by the railway as 'Horeham'. Waldron is a small village some three miles by road north-west of Horam. Lee Miller, actually Elizabeth Miller, was born on 23 April 1907 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York State. She studied life drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York, Manhattan. She also became a model and moved to Paris and then Cairo, having married an Egyptian in 1934 (the couple divorced in 1947). During the Second World War and for a time subequently, Miller photographed for 'Vogue' and also visited certain Nazi Concentration Camps upon their liberation and Hitler's private residence in Munich (Prinzregentenplatz 16). Mean while she had returned to Paris in 1937 where she met one Roland Penrose, a British surrealistic painter and they married n 1947. The couple eventually settled in England, latterly at Farley Farm House, aka Farleys House, about half a mile south of the village of Chiddingly in what is now East Sussex. As Lady Penrose, Miller died at her home on 21 July 1977. Sir Roland Algernon Penrose died at Farleys House on 23 April 1984, what would have been his late wife's birthday. It is said the photographs were taken at Horam because it was the closest station to Farleys House. In truth Horam was the easiest station to get to because as the proverbial crows flies Hellingly station was marginally closer but there was no direct road and a detour via Nash Street and the A22 was necessary'
Photo by Lee Miller from Picture Post