Friday, January 8, 2010

Sepia Saturday


Twycross School 1922
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This weeks picture is of all the children who attended Twycross Village School in Leicestershire in 1922. I can't name all the pupils, just my mother, and her three sisters and one of her brothers.

My mother, Mary, is on the back row 2nd from the right. Standing on her left at the end is Harry who died seven years after the picture was taken. In the middle row are Dorothy, Irene and Jessie who are 6th, 7th, and 8th from the left. If you look at last weeks "Sepia Saturday" which was taken six years later (I have been informed by a cousin, Dorthy's daughter) you will see that Robert was obvious too young to have been in the school photo, probably he wasn't even born then.

I do have the original. As you can see it is badly creased and torn and is held together with Sellotape in places. One of these days I intend to process it with Photoshop and try to get the image looking a bit better.

Next week I will post a photo of my grandmothers wedding group taken on 19th April 1911 outside "Croft House", the Henton family mansion, now sadly demolished in the name of progress. The original photo is in a terrible condition and I've been working on it this week and it now looks like it was taken yesterday.

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posted by Keith at 3:50 PM  
2 Comments:

  • At 11:35, Blogger be.bart said…

    So your family is from Twycross then? My brother worked a couple of months as an intern in Twycross zoo. He still pops over from time to time to visit friends there.

     

  • At 15:36, Blogger Keith said…

    My mothers family comes from Twycross. The farm was adjacent to where the Zoo is now, that was the neighbours farm, but my Grandad didn't like them! They tried to grab some of his land!

     
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