A Bermondsey boy who wandered a long way from home
We spent a week or so touring Cornwall, the sunniest and warmest part of England. You can read about it here. It’s a very beautiful county, real picture-postcard stuff. Good beaches and lots of fishing villages.
This is Polperro today.
This Adonis is me. I was always skinny but I have a hunch this may have been [...]
It was my wife’s birthday and I took advantage of the occasion to experiment with my new camera. It was recommended by my official adviser on all matters technical (Mr ChiriquiChatter) and I must say I was really impressed with the quality when I transferred the photos and video to my PC. That doesn’t [...]
I found a letter that the owner sent to Mum after my first few weeks in the shop. You can read it here.
Holidays camps were another interesting element of life in post-War Britain. I don’t know whether they are uniquely British but they could be. They rapidly became popular with holidaymakers on a limited budget, especially families. A sort of “todo incluido” for the time but built around participation in communal activities.
This link provides a good [...]
“You must have been a beautiful baby, ‘cos baby look at you now!”
I can hear her now singing that song.
In the school nativity play (the angel kneeling on the left)
The 20s look for a 20s girl.
Not sure what this was. Looks like a studio portrait.
“The eyes have it”
I started writing a long entry on the post-war period but I’m buried under piles of work. So I thought I’d use part of the text for a short item.
The introduction of the birth control pill is always held up as the catalyst of the sea change that took place in women’s position and role [...]
From a very early age, one of the biggest treats in my life was going to the pictures (cinema). In those days, going to the movies was a real “outing.” You have to remember that TV was in its infancy. Like many people, we had only a (by today’s standards) tiny black-and-white set. Most programs [...]
After reading the post about Bermondsey industries, a friend sent me this additional information:
“These days we associate mad as a hatter with a bit of whimsy in Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s book Alice in Wonderland of 1865. Carroll didn’t invent the phrase, though. By the time he wrote the book it was already well known.
Few [...]
I think my girls are starting to get worried about the kind of pics their dad is posting on the blog…
These are some recent photos of Bethany.
This is Charlotte holding Nina, my other grandchild.
