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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘It wasn’t my best parenting decision’: Mark Chilvers’ best phone picture

Two terrified-looking children on a ghost train
Ghost train, 2016, shot on Samsung S7. Photograph: Mark Chilvers

Looking back, Mark Chilvers says he thought the ghost train he put his then six-year-old son Louie on would be a “Scooby-Doo level of scary”. The pair were at a London funfair in the early summer of 2016 when they bumped into Louie’s school friend Zavian and his mum.

“Zavian was pestering to go on the ghost train, and my son tagged along with the idea. We watched other young kids getting on the cars, and relented.”

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