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I love looking at old family photos. Amongst all my Mum’s was a small album she inherited from my late Great-Aunt Muriel. This one shows Muriel and three friends strolling down the street in Llandudno in 1929. Muriel is the third from the left, she was twenty-three when this was taken. I’ve no idea who the other three are – don’t recognise any of them – the three on the right seem quite carefree though – I wonder what the lady on the left is thinking?
The second photo below is from later in the book, but sadly there are no notes on the back to identify the cheeky monkeys eating their apples. They may be relatives but truly I have no idea who they are. That said it’s a classic, and suggestions for thought bubble captions are welcome!
I too love to look at old photos and only my Mum can identify some people in them. Specially when families migrate and scatter there is no one around to identify people.
Sadly, I’m no longer in touch with anyone on my Mum’s side of the family – there’s only a sister-in-law and her son left; they moved and I can’t trace them without going to Ireland, although they wouldn’t have been able to help with Muriel’s friends either. Still it is lovely to look at the photos ….
I love looking at old photos and I have one of my mum and dad in Llandudno in 1938 – I think it must have been on their honeymoon. I keep meaning to go through all the photos and identify what I can for my grandchildren.
Lovely photos, especially the last. They look like they’re auditioning for the little know ‘eat no evil’ monkey.
I have a lot of photographs like this which I only discovered when I was clearing out my mum’s house, and it is so sad because I would love to know who the people were and generally there are only one or two I can recognise.
I think that there must have been a lot of street photographers in seaside resorts in the 1920 -1950 era as I have a lot of my maternal grandparents and my mum at either Scarborough or Torquay, caught walking along the pier or through gardens – just a moment frozen in time which is quite poignant really.
I love old photos too. You can help but imagine all sorts of stories and backgrounds of the people in them. Muriel looks lovely! My grandfather was a great camera enthusiast and took lots of photos of post-war Japan, but after he passed away we were only able to keep a small percentage of his photos.