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Parents of our parents.

Wendy, what a lovely picture and a striking lady. I love looking at old photos. I have a few going back to when I was 3 or 4 years of age, but none of grandparents. I didn't know my Fathers father, John, as he died well before I was born. I actually and vaguely remember my Grandmother, Lizzie, but I have no pics. There must be some somewhere, but where, who knows now?

Keep 'em coming I love looking at them.

Ron
 
Mike, absolutely lovely pictures and in such good nick. Didn't the gals look formidable in those days?
I could stay on here all day, but have work to do so that I can retire and spend more time on the site.
Great, thanks for starting my day off great.

Ron
 
Michael, you are so lucky in having so many lovely photos of your family. I really enjoyed looking at them.
 
Michael......those photos are gorgeous, all the sets are marvellous. I too think we're so lucky to have all these pictures. All mine have been collected over the years from various elderly relatives & I've scanned every single one & backed all the scans onto CD etc, plus uploaded onto a secure online photo site. All the originals are safe & sound. Call me obsessive but I love preserving these photos for future generations to see. I scrapbook all the 'heritage' photos scans & try to write little bits about who, what, why & when so that my sons will know about them in years to come.
 
Thank you to all who posted photos what a wonderful collection. I just love old photos and its amazing that that you have these lovely pictures.
 
Here's one of my grandparents, Emma and Albert Tuck, with my Dad on a charabanc trip to the New Forest around 1907. You can just see the back of the charabanc on the right. Emma is on the middle row 3rd from right with the striped blouse, Albert on middle row at the end on right with boater, and my Dad, Alexander, is on the front row on the end at right, with the Eton collar.

The picture is a bit dark so I hope it comes out OK. Judy
 
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It looks as if they had a nice family day out together, Judy.
Simple events, forgotten as the weeks pass, recorded for all time on a little bit of film. There must be thousands of them hidden away in drawers and boxes up and down the country, many with the names, dates and occasions long forgotten.
See https://www.flickr.com/people/forgotten_faces/ for some that are lovingly preserved, although their histories are quite often lost for ever.
 
Judy what a fantastic photo, I just love those hats! I also love the New Forest.
 
Lloyd, thanks for cropping the photo of my Dad. He would have been about 11 when the photo was taken, and it is a favourite of mine.

Wendy, I know what you mean about the hats, they were great weren't they!
 
Judy, that is a really sperb photo, they totally embraced the Edwardian age with those leg 'o mutton sleeves and gorgeous hats.:)
 
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All posted at some time on other topics, but for those that missed them.
I post these pictures of my Dads side of the"JENNEY's family" Nan, Grandad & Greatnan & Grandad.
My Dads mom past away when he was only 15years old so I never new her & as his father remarried I did not have much contact.
I do now that my Great Grandad Wright Jenney married Eliza Buttonshaw Hobday & helped with his Father in Law Henry Nott Hobday run the EAGLE & TUN in Banbury St.
I will post later my Mothers side of our family.
HOPE THE NEW MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THESE PICTURES BEFORE WILL ENJOY
ASTON
 
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I feel so lucky to have these photos as they cover 3 generations. The first one shows my Great Grandmother Sarah, her mother Charlotte & then Charlotte's father William. How brill is that eh?? Thank goodness they had lots of photographs taken. I was so pleased when I found the picture of William my Gt Gt Gt Grandfather:)
 
Lovely photos Dolphie, I especially like the one of the Gt.Grandmother Sarah, and the little violin brooch she is wearing. You definitely are lucky to have 3 generations of photos, I wish I did.
 
I'm also dead lucky that I have some of her jewellery too Judy, (altho not the little violin brooch sadly:() plus her tiny tiny wedding ring & locket. These photos are cropped down to just show head & shoulders but they're part of much bigger pictures......the dresses are gorgeous (well, William isn't wearing a dress obviously:D).
 
As I said in my last post ,here are my Mom's, MOM & DAD (My Nan & Grandad WOOLLEY Aston born & bred)
My MOM is the little girl with the letter in her hand also the one seated on her moms lap in the group pic.
As you may note I have more pictures of my mothers side of the family, my Nan WOOLLEY was more like a Mom to my Dad after his Mom past a way.
So blosomed a true love story with my MOM & DAD from a very young age.
ASTON
 
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All gorgeous photos aston, but my favourite is the one of your Mom with the letter in her hand..........bless.:)
 
:)Lloyd. What a grand job you've done with the photo's. We've been away since Tuesday the reason for the dealy in replying. Have looked at all the lovely photo's and they are all wonderful. Jean. :)
 
Going back a bit further, here's an image of my great-grandfather, Henry (1832-1906). He's pictured here with his second wife, Rose (not my gt.grandmother), possibly on the occasion of their marriage in 1873 or a little later.

Henry is at this stage living in Monmouth Street and he is an auctioneer by profession. He looks a settled and solid Brummagem businessman. But in his youth he has been rather more adventurous. At the age of 19 or 20 he set off for Gold Rush California. This decision and the journey he undertook into the unknown - long before the Panama Canal and transcontinental railways - can have no equivalent today, apart perhaps for a trip to the moon. He was there long enough to see the decline of the gold-digging frenzy and the evolution of settlements into permanent towns which are now significant cities. He returned to Birmingham in October/November 1859 and shortly afterwards married my gt. grandmother, Caroline/Carrie, who died young.

What one would give for a journal, a diary or even a memoir from his time in California - only four or five years after it had been acquired from Mexico for $15m and become a U.S. state. This lack perhaps reminds me why some of us are inclined, with the help of modern technology including this forum, to leave a trace, however slight and inconsequential, of our own footsteps.

Chris
 
:)Chris. What a fantastic photo and you've got the history to go with it. I have some very old ones too but no names to go with them. Bye. Jean.:confused2:
 
Chris M what a great piece of information and a photo as well. I love to read about these expeditions. I have a journal written about a boat trip to America of which an ancestor was on board.
 
Jean.. I have loved looking at all the beautiful photos on this thread, Thank you for thinking of it.
I am trying to contribute, but not having much luck at the moment with posting. I will keep trying:(
If it works its my Mom and Dad...
 
This is a picture of my great grand parents, my mothers father's parents as well as my great Aunt Joan who I knew when I was a child. She lived well into her 90's and died sometime in the 1970's. My great grandparents, I never knew nor did I ever meet my grand parents. They had all died before I was born or shortly after my birth.
 
Thank you Judy. Too often in these old photos the people are so stern looking. I'm not sure why. It's nice for me to have a picture of my family smiling. In fact, I never remember seeing my Great Aunt Joan without a smile on her face. I also have a picture of her sister Annie but haven't posted it yet. I do have pics of my granparents and mom and dad. I have to take them out of the frames to scan before I can post but I will do so eventually. I absolutely love looking at these old photos of everyone's family. This is one of my favourite threads to visit.

Norma
 
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