I need a copy of Lion

So it's like this. I bought an IPad. To use it for digital photography I need a computer to download the pictures to from the ICloud. This computer must run Lion. Fair enough. My late 2006 Macbook can, according to the documentation, run this with a 2 GByte memory. So I upgrade it the memory and then try and download it to do the upgrade. However it is no longer downloadable because it has been replaced by Mountain Lion, which, alas, my elderly Macbook will not run. So I really need to get a copy of Lion from somewhere. Can anyone give me a clue as to where. I would like it to be a legal copy.
Whilst I abandonded Microsoft software for serious use some while back it is notable that their policy of selling and supporting previous versions is more customer friendly than Apple's appears to be.
TIA
Steve

Try here >  http://www.apple.com/uk/contact/
But I presume you are telling me I can still buy a copy from Apple.
Lion can be purchased from Apple in the U.S. Not sure about the UK. Try the contact numbers at that link.

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