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I Have put this on here as I found it in a folder with the Lyndon family in. It is dated 29th January 1888. I aught to start delving into the Lyndon side as my cousin is doing the Taplin side with your help. Lloyd sorry only just noticed what you did with the group photo thanks again.
 
I have always thought a photograph I posted earlier was my grandad [my dads dad] Today my brother sent a photograph of the person who is my grandad. Now the puzzle starts. Who is the other man.
 
Have found this and presumably is my grandad George. Jean. Sorry about the previous photo which should have been of him. My brother scanned it through glass.
 
Thank you for that Lloyd. The two previous photo's didn't go through. My brother scanned them through a glass frame sent them to us. Fine. When i tried to put them on nothing but the frame. Jean.
 
Here is one of my favourite family pics, which I took on a trip to visit my gran in Grasmere Road, Handsworth in August 1965. There's also our two kids, Chris and Tom, then 4 and 2 respectively, and my wife Barbara, who became my old nan's best friend by then.
43 years later, we all went to visit Grasmere Road again, which is when I took the colour pic of the front of the house. The boys parked their cars their while we went for a superb Sunday lunch in the Black Eagle round the corner. You wouldn't get that there in the 1960s, but most people ate well at home then.
 
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Peter, what a lovely photograph. Your wife looks very modern and the photo looks as though it could have been taken quite recently :) Lucky you to have it :)
 
Here are a few piccies . One of my Mum and dads wedding .. It was a very Rosalind Dorreen Clarke and Harry Payton notice also her mums fox fur ? She too would never go out without her fur. Mums mum Rosannah Clarke ne Florence had very hard times as it was her Husband John William Clarke and her Son Thomas at the age of 11 that got blown up by the direct hit on their house at Whittingon oval . Mum and the rest of the kids were taken to an orphanage on the Isle of man .
Here is another piccy of Roshanna she started her working life as a chamber maid in one of the big houses on broad street .
Here also is a piccy of me and my sisters Susie and Julie MUm carrying little Harry and My dad Big Harry .
Note the clothes we were wearing . We were very poor and mum used to make our clothes out of her own , she sewed them by hand. Julie the tomboy looking one . she used to go play in Gus and Tony Taronis yard in all the dirt and Oil in her best party dress .. he loved her loads :)
Next is a piccy of auntie Lilly ne Payton she is dads last surviving sister .. she ran away with a scottish soldier in the war and has just made her 60th wedding anniversary .
BTW I am addicted to this site already and your pics are brilliant ... how lovely it is to share our memories , It keeps our loved ones alive somehow doesnt it ?
Best Wishes Jean
 
BTW the last piccy is my mum and dad dorreen and Harry Payton perhaps some one might recognise them from Willis street ?
 
Here is a piccy of MY Grandad John William Payton Married to Sarah Smith ( she lived first at 72 cherrywood road then remarried freddie Rhodes and lived at 72 Willis Street ) She was a bargee on the canals .He died not long after this was taken he worked for the council burning rubbish and he had a furnace accident .He left her widowed with all these kids in the next photo My dad is the baby in the piccy and Uncle Tom Payton was the Boy (he was a boxer and footie player when he grew older)
The young boy you see in the next piccy is his son John Payton my cousin who is still alive .
The little girl on the left of the family group is auntie lilly who has just celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary . I think she is the only one left alive sadly .Some say I resemble her the most .
The next Piccy is my mums sisters wedding . I put that on because uncle Cliff (mcdade) used to be best freinds with John Taroni back in Willis street and I think they still see each other. Uncle Cliffs mum we called her Mrs Mac and she lived in our little courtyard in Willis street .They were italiens too . The little girl is me :)
The last piccy was the year before dad died in the early 80s when we took him to see his adopted Evacuation mum Mrs Paris in Harvington .As a war child he was evacuated.
Sadly dad died not long after with lung cancer and we never told Mrs Paris because we didnt want to break her heart .
You see isnt it stange how you dont think you can remember these things . I hope I havent bored you guys with all this .
Any one out there know any of these people Id love to hear from you :)
Best wishes Jean
 
Frederick catsclaws what fantastic photo's. Have not been around for a few days and missed them. Just catching up. Frederick looking forward to the September brumagem. Jean.
 
Lovely photo's catsclaws. As a coincidence my husbands mother's family all come from Harvington still some there. Michael loved the place as a child.
 
Thanks Wendy .
Yes Harvington is certainly Beautiful . I wonder if they knew old Mrs paris ? She is dead no of course. My dad was evacuated there as a child .. he loved it as she gave him a loving home . What a contrast eh for him from the centre of brum .. he must have thought he was sent to heaven with all that greenery and fresh fruit :)
 
Yes you are right a lovely place. Michael's sister was evacuated there to stay with an Aunt their family name was Jobson. I will ask her if she remembers a Mrs Paris. Michael loved to stay there as he lived in Saltley, he loves asparagus and its because he had it in Harvington.
 
Michaels family came from Norton nr Harvington his granny was born in Artillery Cottage which is still there.
 
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