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Merry
01-10-12, 07:19
October 2012

Each month we will be asking members to post up family history photographs from a particular catagory. Now that the summer weather seems to have vanished for those of us in the UK, I thought this might be a good time to look back at sunnier times, so this month our photo catagory is 'holidays'! Do you have any holiday photos from the past?

Photos posted on this thread will eventually be added to our 'Decades of Family History Photographs' forum in order to help others with dating old photographs. (You are welcome to post any photos you like directly to the Decades forum at any time; these monthy requests are just further encouragement!)

Please note that this thread is on an open forum so any captions to your photos may be picked up by Google searches. If you are lucky you may make a family history contact through your post! I made my best family history contact ever through a photograph caption posted on this site!

There is no restriction to the number of photographs you post each month - the more the merrier! However, please make separate posts if your photos are from different decades. Remember to caption your photograph and if you know the date or approximate date, please state that also. If you are unsure, then that is something we can discuss on the thread.

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Merry
01-10-12, 10:30
This is my grandfather, Walter Henry Clark, on the prom some time in the early '30s, in his pj's, dressingown and slippers!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW19312.jpg

This is the same year and place. My mum at the front, then my grandmother, Winifred May Harriet Clark, nee Maynard and trailing behind, my aunt, Betty Pauline Clark:

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW19313.jpg

Same holiday and it was warm enough to go in the sea (my mum, left, aunt, middle, gran, right)!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW1931.jpg

If anyone thinks any or all these photos were actually taken at Eastbourne rather than on the Isle of Wight I would be very interested to know. If anyone can confirm they are Vetnor that would be good too! lol

kiterunner
01-10-12, 10:43
If anyone thinks any or all these photos were actually taken at Eastbourne rather than on the Isle of Wight I would be very interested to know. If anyone can confirm they are Vetnor that would be good too! lol

Have a look at the third photo on this site and see what you think:


http://www.isleofwightholidays4all.co.uk/ventnor-and-steephill-cove.html

Shona
01-10-12, 11:27
Looks like Ventnor.

Merry
01-10-12, 12:49
Thanks very much, you two.

That means I can date the photos 100% to 1931 as in Dec 1930 my grandparents and mum and auntie moved back to the UK from Cyprus where they had lived for the previous three or four years - On their first UK 'holiday' (working holiday for granddad) mum ran straight in to the sea at Ventnor, not realising it wouldn't be as warm as in the Med! lol

Eastbourne was a couple of years later!

Lynn the Forest Fan
01-10-12, 20:25
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/lynnlyons_2006/GrandmaontheBoards.jpg

This is my grandma Margaret Smith (nee Appleyard) on holiday on the Norfolk Broads, possibly 40s/50s

Janet
02-10-12, 03:36
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_6OKv-HW77g/UGpG0wvUoeI/AAAAAAAAB0w/KNGZH5DgOQY/s1600/Walter+with+other+young+men+-+600+dpi.jpg

Here's one of my grandfather Walter Berry (left, b1875) with three other young men of about the same age, all from Sutton-in-Craven near Keighley (WRY), apparently enjoying a day in Morecambe. Or perhaps the photographer came through Sutton. The handwritten inscription reads "Walter, Herbert T., Joe H. Craven, H. Cryer. Working from the 1891 census, I believe I've identified Herbert Thompson, Joe H. Craven and Herbert Cryer. Herbert T. was a draper's assistant and the others were all working in the worsted mill and living a stone's throw from each other. My grandfather was married in 1900, so I dare say this photo predates 26 April 1900.

Merry
02-10-12, 07:22
I hope they were in Morcambe and had a lovely day!

Lynn, your grandma looks like she's enjoying the rest!

Merry
02-10-12, 11:09
Please excuse the state of this photo, but originally only three people had complete faces! lol Luckily the important one for me was still in tact. Far left is my great grandfather, Edwin Maynard, in the early 1870s on a beach somewhere in the UK (I presume!). I don't know who any of the other people are, but I don't think any of them are his siblings, so probably friends. I don't know where the picture was taken, but the nearest beach to his home would have been Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/Seaside.jpg

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 16:36
These are of me aged 2. Taken in Rhyl in 1955.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/YatesMargaretElizabeth6Rhylage2.jpg


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/YatesMargaretElizabeth3Rhylage2.jpg

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 16:38
This one is of my grandfather Sydney Leonard Yates 1904-1984.

I would imagine it was taken in the 1940's or 1950's. Grandad never seemed to alter.


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/YatesSydneyLeonard1.jpg

Merry
02-10-12, 16:38
These are of me aged 2.

Ahhhhhh!! I especially love the first one! A real look of concentration!

Merry
02-10-12, 16:40
I love your granddad's beach clothng, Marg!

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 16:43
This one is of one of the many Bass Brewery trips to either Scarborough or Blackpool I would imagine. Bass paid for their employees for a day trip to the seaside every year. Sometimes almost 20 carriages would leave Burton Station.

I bet there was a few crates of beer aboard. :D

I have no idea if any family members are amongst them.


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/Basstrip.png

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 16:49
Early 1960's not sure where.

Back left my grandmother Alice Jane Newey nee Mortlock 1880-1973

back right my aunt Dorothy May Fleetwood nee Newey 1911-2003

centre another aunt Winifred Edith Harvey nee Newey 1916-1990

The two children are my cousins. Both are still living, do I have to blank out their faces?


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarveyLinda-MortlockAlice-NeweyWinifred-HarveyPhilip-NeweyDorothy.png

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 16:57
Blackpool 1934. My uncle Leslie Wilfred Newey 1920-1978 and my mother Gwendoline Alice Yates nee Newey 1923-1986.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyLeslieWilfredNeweyGwendolineAlice1934Blackpoo l.jpg


1930's Blackpool again, perhaps the same year.

Grandmother Alice Jane Newey nee Mortlock and uncle Leslie Wilfred Newey

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/MortlockAliceJaneandNeweyLeslie2.png

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 17:00
I'm not sure if these are late 1930's or early 1940's. Again at Blackpool (they never went anywhere else)

Uncle Les and grandmother

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyLeslieandMortlockAliceJane.png

Uncle Les, Grandmother and my mother


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyGwendolineandLeslieandMortlockAliceJane.png


Granny and Mum

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/MortlockAliceJaneandNeweyGwendoline3.png

Granny and mum again

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/MortlockAliceJaneandNeweyGwendoline2.png

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 17:02
Definitely 1940's Blackpool


Mum, (Gwendoline Alice Yates nee Newey) Granny (Alice Jane Newey nee Mortlock) and Aunty Win (Winifred Edith Harvey nee Newey)

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyGwendoline-MortlockAliceJane-NeweyWinifred.png

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 17:05
Ahhhhhh!! I especially love the first one! A real look of concentration!


Cute aren't I :D:D:D


I love your granddad's beach clothng, Marg!


I know, :D:D:D:D my dad was the same when he was younger. Always wore a suit, shirt and tie no matter where we were.

Merry
02-10-12, 18:22
The two children are my cousins. Both are still living, do I have to blank out their faces?


No, you haven't named them, so that's fine.

Your grandmother Alice Newey, looks very familar....is that because you've posted pics of her before, or is it because she looks like some of my great-aunts?

Margaret in Burton
02-10-12, 20:26
No, you haven't named them, so that's fine.

Your grandmother Alice Newey, looks very familar....is that because you've posted pics of her before, or is it because she looks like some of my great-aunts?

I probably have put pics of her on before but I did write an article on her for the mag on FTF

anne fraser
03-10-12, 20:19
My mother with her brother and cousins. I am sorry I can't make it bigger can anyone help?
538 If you left click it gets a bit bigger. I think it must be 1921 or 1922 and probably Devon. Mary and Donovan Horne with their cousins Frank, Wilfred, Kenneth and Gordon Haine.

Margaret in Burton
04-10-12, 14:41
My mother with her brother and cousins. I am sorry I can't make it bigger can anyone help?
538 If you left click it gets a bit bigger. I think it must be 1921 or 1922 and probably Devon. Mary and Donovan Horne with their cousins Frank, Wilfred, Kenneth and Gordon Haine.

You have to upload it to photobucket first and the copy the IMG code and paste into here.

Oakum Picker
05-10-12, 08:58
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/Kiegsien/AliceAlbert.jpg

My grandparents Albert & Alice with my uncle & aunt, summer 1935 at a guess.

Merry
05-10-12, 13:52
Friends of my gran on holiday at Twickenham, Middlesex. Circa 1912.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/RiverThamesTwickenham.jpg

Merry
05-10-12, 14:08
Daniel Charles (Charlie) Philpott was a son-in-law of my great-grandfather, Edwin Flower Mitchell. Charlie and Edwin were both licencees of The Anchor Inn (323 Gloucester Road, Bristol) at various times from the late 1890s onwards - Charlie was the licencee for 40 years! My grandparents, Florence Elizabeth Mitchell and George Charles Burchill met there in 1905 when she was working there as a barmaid and he was a customer!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/AnchorInnc1920.jpg

Though the caption says the bar is currently Bar Oz, it has now been renamed and is "The Anchor".

borobabs
05-10-12, 16:09
My Mam Winnifred Johnson at Saltburn abt 1939

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k72/borobabs/0fb0c39a.jpg

borobabs
05-10-12, 16:12
My Nana Mabel Baker b 1888 and granddad Arthur Stroyd at Whitby b1882 in about 1965

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k72/borobabs/6d511e18.jpg

borobabs
05-10-12, 16:15
Me Barbara Johnson at Saltburn in 1954

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k72/borobabs/Barbara_Ann_Johnson3_zpsb23846f9.jpg

Margaret in Burton
05-10-12, 16:19
Me Barbara Johnson at Saltburn

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k72/borobabs/Barbara_Ann_Johnson3_zpsb23846f9.jpg

You had a head full of curls too like me then Babs. :D:D:D

borobabs
05-10-12, 16:20
My uncle Charlie Stroyd b 1917 and his wife Doris Trotter b 1911 on day trip to Scarborough
about 1951

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k72/borobabs/charliedorothy096_zpsad90abdb.jpg

Oakum Picker
05-10-12, 17:41
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/Kiegsien/GlenRoger1955.jpg

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/Kiegsien/GlenRoger.jpg

Me & my bruv. Clacton? 1955 Windsor 1956

ElizabethHerts
05-10-12, 18:59
Ooh, Glen, I would never have recognised you!
I doubt you would recognise me, either, from my younger pics.:)

ElizabethHerts
05-10-12, 19:13
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc78/lambelizabeth/Alexanderfamily.jpg

From left to right:
My sister, my father, me in the middle, my mother, my brother
Somewhere in County Kerry, Ireland.
Circa 1958. I suppose I'm about 7.

WendyPusey
05-10-12, 20:40
This is my grandfather, Walter Henry Clark, in the summer of 1931 on the prom at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, in his pj's, dressingown and slippers!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW19312.jpg

This is the same year and place. My mum at the front, then my grandmother, Winifred May Harriet Clark, nee Maynard and trailing behind, my aunt, Betty Pauline Clark:

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW19313.jpg

Same holiday and it was warm enough to go in the sea (my mum, left, aunt, middle, gran, right)!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/VentnorIOW1931.jpg

If anyone thinks any or all these photos were actually taken at Eastbourne rather than on the Isle of Wight I would be very interested to know. If anyone can confirm they are Vetnor that would be good too! lol


Sorry I don't think that is Ventnor. It just doesn't look like any of the photos my MIL has of that time. I don't remember the wooden groins on the beach either and the pavement along the esplanade doesn't look right either.:(

Oakum Picker
05-10-12, 20:42
Ooh, Glen, I would never have recognised you!
I doubt you would recognise me, either, from my younger pics.:)

I already had the bags under the eyes, now they're extra large trunks.

Knowing it is you I can see the likeness Liza.

ElizabethHerts
05-10-12, 20:44
I already had the bags under the eyes, now they're extra large trunks.

Knowing it is you I can see the likeness Liza.

Well, I never saw any bags, Glen. I just have very dark circles under my eyes these days. The concealer gets well used.

Merry
05-10-12, 21:28
Sorry I don't think that is Ventnor. It just doesn't look like any of the photos my MIL has of that time. I don't remember the wooden groins on the beach either and the pavement along the esplanade doesn't look right either.:(

So, Eastbourne then?

Mum only had the two holidays, so must be one or the other. She wrote Ventnor on the backs, but she could easily be mistaken.

WendyPusey
05-10-12, 21:34
I may be wrong Merry, but it just doesn't look right to me.

Merry
05-10-12, 21:38
I was hoping you'd come and look Wendy! I had wondered if the photos were taken in a different town on the Isle of Wight if it wasn't for the dressing gown and slippers shot!

It's just occurred to me that these pics don't include their dog who went on one of the holidays and was in disgrace for eating the bed linen in the guesthouse, so mum might remember where that was and then this should be the other place!!

WendyPusey
05-10-12, 21:42
The one with the dressing gown shows land behind him, but I can't think where on Ventnor esplanade that would be as there is nothing out at sea, and to either side the land rises steeply up to St Boniface Down.

Merry
05-10-12, 21:49
I think the buildings on the hill in this Francis Frith picture of Ventnor are the same buildings as in the background of the picture with my family in the water.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ventnor+promenade&um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=471&tbm=isch&tbnid=Tputzt4MNNQIjM:&imgrefurl=http://www.francisfrith.com/ventnor/photos/the-promenade-c1950_V1004/&docid=b_G-sS58PvHAzM&itg=1&imgurl=http://images.francisfrith.com/c10/450/22/V1004.jpg&w=450&h=297&ei=D0dvUIKzKcSk0QWOgIH4Dw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=86&vpy=158&dur=1319&hovh=182&hovw=276&tx=159&ty=124&sig=115959735873931777001&page=1&tbnh=113&tbnw=171&start=0&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:84

Merry
05-10-12, 21:56
The one with the dressing gown shows land behind him, but I can't think where on Ventnor esplanade that would be as there is nothing out at sea, and to either side the land rises steeply up to St Boniface Down.

That's what I said to OH!

I suppose it's possible not all the photos are of the same place - mum labeled them about 60 years after the event and she's never re-visted the Island.

I need to find the rest of the Eastbourne photos, but I think she has them....

WendyPusey
06-10-12, 08:42
Merry I have asked my OH to have a look at the photos and he does not think the 1st one is on the Island.

The 2nd one he is 99% sure that it is Ventnor. He thinks it is at the left of the pier where the canoe lake and children's Island shaped paddling pool is. I agree with him now I've seen it again. The one on the beach again he is 99% sure it is Ventnor.

Merry
06-10-12, 09:54
Thank you very much, Wendy. And please thank your OH for me too.

I will see if I can get mum talking about the dressing gown photo - if she thinks I'm asking questions she forgets everything, so I have to go carefully!

Watch this space after tomorrow!!!

Merry
06-10-12, 10:53
My great-aunt, Gertrude Leslie Sanders, nee Gosden and her husband, Archibald Percy Sanders in the late 1930s. I don't know where this was taken. Usual British beach clothing though!!!!

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/ArchieGertieSanders.jpg

Merry
06-10-12, 15:23
This is George Renyard (1887 - 1957) and his wife, Ethel nee Fursse (1892 - 1973) on the left of the photo. Most likely summer 1923. I don't know where the photo was taken, but they lived in Hackney. George is second cousin twice removed to my OH.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/GeorgeEthelRenyardwithBabyEileencirca1920.jpg

Tom Tom
06-10-12, 17:44
My Great Grandparents, Joseph and Marjorie Colwood at the beach in the 1950s.http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/ColwoodJosephChiltonMarjorie.jpg


My Great Great Grandmother, Alice Violet Connelly (formerly Arnold) on the beach in the 1920s (I think anyway). Probably at Barry.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/ConnellyAliceVioletArnold.jpg

Tom Tom
06-10-12, 17:45
On the beach in the early 1930s.
My Great Great Grandmother Pattie Sophia Graves (Formerly Davenport)
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/ConnellyDerekandPattieSophia-1.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/HerbertPattieSophiaandoneofherstepdaughters-1.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/DavenportPattieGravesFlorenceConnellyDerek.jpg

Tom Tom
06-10-12, 17:46
Went on the train to visit family in 1911 but couldn't get back to work (presumably because of the train strike?!)
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/Gravesfamily1911-2.jpg

Tom Tom
06-10-12, 17:47
Cousins in the sea, circa 1924. Again, probably at Barry.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/Connellycousinsl-rVCSIBSFHWDPSRS-1.jpg


Two great great Aunts. 1930s.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/ConnellyBlancheCarolineandKateAugusta-1.jpg

Tom Tom
06-10-12, 17:49
Late 1940s / early 1950s.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/SharpIreneBlanche5.jpg

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