The Porters lived in Victorian Digbeth and then various parts of Small Heath. They arrived at 128 Bankes Road after the 1911 census but were well established by 1914 it seems. The last of their descendants that lived there, my mother, left in the mid 1980's.
The photo was almost certainly taken in the garden of 128 in 1914.The groom in the photo is Leonard Smith. I think he was a baker. The bride is my great aunt Violet. When I knew them they lived in Blake Lane, almost opposite to the Custard House. They had 3 daughters. In the late 40's / early 50's I used to visit them on most Saturdays. We were registered with them for eggs from their hens in their back garden.
My mother (Dorothy) was the daughter of Ann Porter who married the mysterious Arthur Goldsby. She, seated by the groom's right hand, would have been 10 then.
I can recognise many of the Porters in the photo having known them later. My great grandfather and his wife are peering of the shoulders of the happy couple. I remember seeing him at 128 in the early days of the war. Great uncles James (plus wife) and Horace, great aunt Maud and my maternal grandmother are there too. By this time my grandfather had gone away. I've never knowingly seen a photo of him. My grandmother married again in the 1920's. Miraculously by then she had become a spinster again (or so the marriage certificate shows).
SORRY PHOTO IS STILL >2Mb. WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW
The photo was almost certainly taken in the garden of 128 in 1914.The groom in the photo is Leonard Smith. I think he was a baker. The bride is my great aunt Violet. When I knew them they lived in Blake Lane, almost opposite to the Custard House. They had 3 daughters. In the late 40's / early 50's I used to visit them on most Saturdays. We were registered with them for eggs from their hens in their back garden.
My mother (Dorothy) was the daughter of Ann Porter who married the mysterious Arthur Goldsby. She, seated by the groom's right hand, would have been 10 then.
I can recognise many of the Porters in the photo having known them later. My great grandfather and his wife are peering of the shoulders of the happy couple. I remember seeing him at 128 in the early days of the war. Great uncles James (plus wife) and Horace, great aunt Maud and my maternal grandmother are there too. By this time my grandfather had gone away. I've never knowingly seen a photo of him. My grandmother married again in the 1920's. Miraculously by then she had become a spinster again (or so the marriage certificate shows).
SORRY PHOTO IS STILL >2Mb. WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW
