Re: Our Ancestors #5

[Emmeline]

Paula - a beautiful photo - I can see why you cherish it.

Anitamo - what can one say - a completely adorable darling boy !

Thank you for sharing.........

P.S. What was he named ?

[sheronb]

Great photos anitamo!!

[kesannah]

Great photos Paula and Anitamo. Love the curls and the big eyes.
Jc. I too wanted blue eyes like my Grandad-used to say my prayers asking for them every night. Still brown next morning. When I said God doesn't answer prayes I was asked "Isn't NO an answer?

[anitamo]

 Thanks Emmeline  myg.g.grandmother was called Sarah Carroll and I was supposedly named after that side of the family, my second name is carol, dad spelled it wron gly when he registered me. My Grandfather was called Frederick Stansfield Wright, Stansfield being another family name which was given to my older brother, Ian Stansfield.

[Emmeline]

Thank you anitamo. I like to know all the details !

We used one of my husband's family surnames when our third daughter arrived and gave her the second name of Kirk. There did not seem to be any boys in the offing and we thought it would be nice for it to be used again. Must say she has always been quite happy about it.

Look forward to more of your photos........

[deeiluka]

This is my grandmother's sister Eliza Gertrude, known as Gertie, with her husband Cecil Clarke outside their shop in Raunds, Northamptonshire.  I'd love to know why it was decorated - could it have been for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation? I know Cecil died in 1958, and he was born in 1893, and in the photo I think he looks as though he was around sixty.

Would love some other opinions.

......dee

[Elliebob]

I would say it looks like the 1953 coronation of the Queen.

My mother still has some commemorative ribbon!  My parents took me into Manchester to see it decorated.  I was only 2 and when it was the Silver Jubilee in 1977 my mother was surprised I couldn't remember going!!

Ellen

[Gadget]

Possibly is the 1953 Coronation. I have two Coronation mugs from then. One was  from school and the other one, I can't remember where it came from. There were masses of celebration parties and every house and shop was decorated.

My only query is the length of Gertie's skirt. I'm sure the hemlines were getting higher by then 

Lovely photo - memories 

Gadget

[PaulaToo]

Skirt lengths could be still pretty low, Hartnell's New Look, which I wallowed in, Gadget.
BUT
Blow the picture up.
On the right all the ribbons lead to a shield with a head on it...
It looks like George V to me...which would place it between 1910 and 1936...

(Correction, it was Christian Dior's New Look. Ho hum, the woman's loosing it  )