Thanks everyone.
all of this has been really interesting.and i love the website for dating clothes.
i have been researching my mums side of the family since she died in 1998 , before the internet had any sort of facility to research. it was a lot more difficult then. also i have no relatives alive to ask so have relied on photos and lists my mum made back in 1980 with names and dates of births. a real gold mine.
as they say you are never to old to learn , and now being in my late seventies it certainly is true.
thanks again
Rose Pippard