All our yesterdays...

[DaveB]

God.. doesn't Ganges look scary in B&W Nice couple of shots there mate.

Here's a similar one of my Dad taken (I think) around the time he was disgorged from Vidicatrix at Gravesend.. the Merchant Navy training school. He was too young to join when the war started. Not sure if he was one of the many who lied about their age (it has been suggested!) but the only job a lad could do at 16 was Cabin Boy so that's what he did Not long after, he'd got Atlantic, Russian and Med convoys under his belt.


Note the hand colouring.. very posh

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

My Mum used to earn extra cash by colouring in Wedding pics and the like

We still have the special paint kit she used in a bespoke wooden box.

[Dev One]

Dave B
Sorry to hear of your double loss, please accept my sincere condolences.
The same goes to Adrian.
As I'm in my 70's I'm getting too close for comfort.........So I had wanted to share some of my old family pics but I do not seem to be able to attach the images - they are .jpg & less than the regulation size.
Regards
Keith

[Garry Russell]

Hi Keith

You have to upload to Photo Bucket or similar file hosting site, then then paste the picture link into the post

[Molyned]

I suppose sea-side holiday snaps are O.K. ? .Well here's one my old dad took earlier - a lot earlier - 1951.

Taken on Southport beach standing in front of that gorgeous D.H.83 Fox Moth , are me and my brother.
I'm the one in his brand-new school blazer and 'plimmies'. This was the start of it all - my first flight.
Cheers
Dave M(oly)

[DaveB]

That's a blinder Dave.. just the thing I was hoping you'd all post

Keith.. try somewhere like Photobucket as Garry suggested but make sure you don't rely on it as a backup. Only a couple of days ago, I revisited Photobucket as I wanted to link one of my collections to someone and found all my folders empty I still have the shots but they're spread all over the place on different pc's

Garry.. nice story about your mom hand colouring wedding phots, especially as you still have the kit! Mom and Dad's wedding phots (a handful) were hand coloured too and they look so much nicer than the plain B&W versions
ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Some of my Parents own wedding shots are hand coloured and they do have a sort of atmosphere.

In the days when pics were black and white and sepia toned to be posh, the hand coloured made things really special

Nowadays everything is so clean and simple as well as instant which is great, but there is no magic to it, the magic like when I used to go to kids parties at Christmas and saw the cartoons in colour via a film projector.

I can still feel that now when I think back and such memories as shown here remind me that the memories are still there.

[Tomliner]

Now you've started something Dave.Sorry to hear of you recent losses.It will be painful for some time.

This was taken during WW2 and shows my late dad(on the left) with his shipmates.He died aged 63 in June 1977 followed in August 1977 by my father in law aged 57.My wife's mother then went in 1980 also aged 57,probably as the result of a broken heart.
I have very little knowledge of dad's war service other than he was a gunner with the RN.I wish I had asked him more about it.EricT
ps I thought I'd add these two as well

This was my my late mum who passed away in 2003 aged 84.Mam was a very poor eater,smoked like a chimney until her last years and if bets had been taken many years ago as to which parent would be the first to, mam would have been odds on favourite.The old creaking gate syndrome maybe.

This is yours truly taken at Spitalgate Grantham in about 1963.This shows the height of my career in aviation!.What a poseur eh?EricT

[Seaking]

Tomliner

I know what you mean about wishing you knew more, my father never ever spoke of his young years or his navy time, all I ever
knew was that he was evacuated from London and didn't go to a really nice place.
I'm not sure about service records in WWII but I managed to get my grandfathers complete RN service record but that was WWI
maybe something you could look into.
I know he was on the Dido and a minesweeper.
So sorry to hear of Dave's loss, my condolences, sure got my brain going trying to find old pics of the family.

[DaveB]

Thanks for your kind thoughts fellas.. VM appreciated

I love these phots. Even though I don't know most of you personally, it feels like I do because I've known you here for so long. That makes 'em even more special Friends/Forces Reunited eat your heart out

Eric.. looked at the arm badges and knew straight away your Dad was a gunner. Obviously wartime too with the lack of 'unit' on the cap talley.. just H.M.S. Nice phot of your mum too.. the family resemblance of you in the Sedbarge is obvious

ATB
DaveB