Clever as many of our family history research members are, I am pretty confident that nobody will be able to enlighten me as to why I, as the oldest surviving member of two or three family lines, have in my possession a delightful little autograph album belonging to a young girl in Bournbrook of whom I have never heard. But perhaps someone might be interested enough to look up the family and see if it tells us anything.
Early in 1932 a young girl was given an autograph album for her birthday by "Marjorie", presumably a friend. The girl was Joan Mary Field of 3 St. Edward's Road, Bournbrook. I would guess that she was 12-14 at the time and that would put her birthdate somewhere before 1920.
The album contains the usual pieces of doggerel verse and one or two more rather more worthy quotations from Shakespeare and so on. I suspect that the latter were inserted by two of her teachers, D. Gilbert (29.iv.32) and Elsie Baxter (13.11.32). Also contained are various sketches and watercolours, of varying quality and so typical of that time. It looks as though quite a lot of people had some sketching talent at that pre-telly, pre-iPad period. I'll post a few of the images.
Chris
Early in 1932 a young girl was given an autograph album for her birthday by "Marjorie", presumably a friend. The girl was Joan Mary Field of 3 St. Edward's Road, Bournbrook. I would guess that she was 12-14 at the time and that would put her birthdate somewhere before 1920.
The album contains the usual pieces of doggerel verse and one or two more rather more worthy quotations from Shakespeare and so on. I suspect that the latter were inserted by two of her teachers, D. Gilbert (29.iv.32) and Elsie Baxter (13.11.32). Also contained are various sketches and watercolours, of varying quality and so typical of that time. It looks as though quite a lot of people had some sketching talent at that pre-telly, pre-iPad period. I'll post a few of the images.
Chris