Part one today returns to archive fun; pics of transitioning hippies from the early 1980s, and some of my ancestors
going back to the 1870s. No matter what some people may think, I wasn't around then to take the latter: they are
edited digital scans of transparencies (slides) I took 35 years ago of rather decayted large prints of (mostly) studio
portraits that used to hang in my mother's childhood home in Milton Road, Tottenham, and, I suspect, in my
grandmother's rooms in my childhood home in Clyde Road. But before we get to those...
A Vision in PaisleyAway FixtureFour of the Aberystwyth crew visit the mansions: Helen, Clive, Di (the one woman Clive went out with for more than
five minutes that didn't bear his child) and Ralph
Ahem, Moving Right AlongFierceMy mother's mother's mother
Wedding DayMy mother's father's parents, Isaac Edwards (1856-1883) and the three months pregnant Mary Endall (1857-1884)
on or near their wedding day, 27/9/75. I suspect that the guy on the right is her father, Richard Endall (1827-89),
although he looks older than 48.
Recalled to the ColoursMy mother's father, brought back into the army as a sergeant in charge of training recruits in the Great War
GhostsMy mother's mother with her first five children, taken around the beginning of the Great War. I'm pretty sure that's Doris on her lap, and the others are, left to right, Dick, Cissie, George and Albert
Another WeddingThis one features my mother's parents. They were married on Xmas Day 1905. He was 29, just out of the army after
15 years (he lied about his age). She was 21
Tomorrow, off to Wales. Yet again...