Travelling to a far-off land for a holiday, or the futuristic notion of setting a man on the moon, would have been far from the thoughts of cash-strapped post-war housewives and their families.

For instance, my treat at that time, as I remember, was a trip to Littlehampton with the help of my dad's "privy" railway ticket.

However, in 1950, George Pal produced a sciencefiction film entitled Destination Moon.

It was showing at the Gaiety, my local cinema, so I asked mum nicely if I could go to see it.

She replied tersely: "You don't want to fill your head with that nonsense."

Fast forward 19 years to 1969, the birth of my daughter - and men gently jumping up and down on the moon.

Now it is early morning in Moscow's Red Square in 1987 and I experiment with my camera by pointing its lens directly at the sunrise.

This is frowned upon as an unconventional way to take a picture but the resulting "long shadows" snap please me.

Through the decades, people's perception of holiday travel, science fiction and science fact has changed, spurred on in modern times by the invention of Frank Whittle's jet engine and the affluence of society.

-Roy Jameson, Peacehaven