Friday's Favorite Family Foto

Sisters. Four sisters. Edith, Gladys (my mother), Madge and May. Gladys and Madge, the dressmakers, created the beautiful gowns. If only they had kept them. I can imagine them cutting out, stitching and fitting each dress. Excitement must have been high. Their workroom tables covered with fabric, scissors, lovely old wooden spools wrapped with thread, pins everywhere. Oh to have them back, to ask them about those days when they worked the treadles on the old Singer sewing machines. It was a lovely wedding I'm certain.

Edith's wedding day ~ mid-1940's


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Friday's Favorite Family Foto

Lost in the music while playing the piano at Arts Together

~ August 2008 ~

A granddaughter wants a piano. It doesn't have to be a fancy one. It does need to be in tune. The wood can be scratched...................piano shawls are beautiful. It has to fold up to fit into a small apartment or cottage!

Dream on sweet child. Sometimes dreams come true.

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Friday's Favorite Family Foto

NOTHER FAVORITE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH.

This is me with mother in the Summer of 1944 in my home town of Torquay in Devon. This park is still there and the flat grassy area behind us is still used for lawn bowling - one of those traditional English pastimes enjoyed by mostly retired gentleman and ladies. They are usually outfitted in cream flannel trousers and blazers, the ladies in white pleated skirts or dresses - and straw Panama hats or nifty caps are the classic headgear.

Lymington Gardens, Torquay

I know my mother, being an accomplished seamstress, made the blankets and pillows for my pram. Don't you love the basket strapped to the handle - vintage diaper bag most likely! I love how she looks so happy here.

We lived with my grandmother in her flat in an older house back in those trees - as my father was still serving in the Royal Air Force. Grandmother was evacuated from London to Devon to escape WWII bombing, however several bombs fell not far from this very area, being jettisoned by enemy planes before returning across the English Channel.

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Friday's Favorite Family Foto

Have you crossed an ocean by liner? Yes, they were called 'ocean liners' at one time, not cruise ships. I've never taken a cruise, but I did cross the Atlantic on one of the greatest of the ocean liners ever built during the golden age of elegant transatlantic sea travel. One always dressed to travel back then.........................in high heeled shoes and silly hats. This was my favorite coat - a royal blue textured wool, and I loved those shoes. I thought I looked quite snazzy for traveling home to England!

February 23, 2006 the new RMS Queen Mary 2, on her way to Mexico, saluted her predecessor RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, California where she has been a tourist attraction since her retirement in 1967.

Friday's Favorite Family Foto

Favorite? Yes. Treasured? Most definitely. This is the family photo I would strive to save in a fire or flood ~ it is the documented piece of my English heritage closest to my heart.

London, England ~ c. 1915

This amazing lady is my maternal grandmother, Olive Elizabeth, b. 1886 in London. Within a space of four years, following her marriage to my grandfather George, she bore five children! The eldest daughter, my beautiful Auntie Madge is on the left with the double hair bows, Next the twins, my dear mother Gladys on the right with her brother Edward. Then a second set of twins, the girls being held by grandma, Auntie May on the left, and Auntie Edith, the last one to die just a couple of months ago, aged 94.

Edited: Deborah's busy schedule will prevent her from actually hosting FFFF this week but she says to post anyway if you want....................as mine is ready to go, here it is!