Monday, January 19, 2009

Charlie

This is my favourite photo of Charlie it was taken probably 2-3 years before we met, while he was stationed overseas in Seoul, Korea. The original is in black & white and very good quality I have a scanned copy hanging in my den. He probably developed himself as that is what he was doing while he was in the army, he worked with the photography department so we have lots of photos that were taken unofficially in Korea. Most of them are slides but there are a few like this one that were actually made into prints.
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Monday, January 5, 2009

My Sister

This is a photo of my sister, Valerie (with the bows in her hair) and my Aunt Sheila (dads youngest sister) it was taken a 3 Vernon Road, Leytonstone, London, England in our living room. It was probably taken around the time that I was born (1947)as there is eleven and half years between Valerie and I and Valerie looks to be about eleven. It appears to be a professional photo as it has the postcard cardboard backing in those days there used to be door to door photographys. Interestingly enough the same wallpaper was there when Valerie married in 1955! and later when we moved around 1958.