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Note: All family relationships based upon me.

Me, mother and sister Jane. Another picture taken on our front lawn.

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My mum, aunt Ada and uncle Murray.

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Uncle Murray administering a life-saving beer to my father. Aunt Ada watches on.

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Jane and I digging holes in the sand, me one-handed.

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From the right, aunt Ada, grandad and grandma. The two on thre left could be my fayher and uncle Murray.

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Uncle Murray with his parents, my grandparents at their house on Fairholm.

Behind them is the primary or "British" school that Jane and I went to as children.

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This must have been taken in the early 1920's. It is in the yard of the primary school my mother attended and is a 'class' photo. In case you cannot make her out, my mum is on the far left of the back row.

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This is aunt Ada on the left, my mum and a woman I cannot identify. It is interesting that she is wearing a blazer with a badge. I am not able to associate it with anything.

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Here is a very young Jane with me on the beach somewhere.

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Jane keeping me under control while visiting relatives in Stockton.

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This is interesting for two things.

It shows them sitting on the remains of the old mill dam at Birks, just outside the village.

The girl sitting on my mother's lap should be Jane - but it does not look like her so I have to wonder if she was with others who were out with them. A puzzle.

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My father looking quite the man of the time in true country fashion.

This was probably taken in the late 30's at my granparents home in Fairholm.

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Mother with 'Major'.

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Mother with uncle Murray and aunt Ada.

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This would be 1959, my dad, me and mother.

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This must have been taken at Middleton vicarage. I can only identify 'Granny',' Gaffa' and my mother in the center.

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I do not know who is the gentleman on the left but speculate it might be a relative of aunt Ada who stands next to him. Then there is uncle Murray sitting in front, 'Gram' and my mother with Jane standing in front of her.

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'Gram', my dad and an unknown woman.

You can see where my mother inherited her hair from 'Gram'.

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Jane dressed as a new member of the church choir.

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Uncle Mark, his daughter, his older brother (my dad) and me.

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Mum and dad with aunt Ada. While my parents would be in the car, it looks like aunt Ada is travelling on the motorbike you see leaning against the wall behind them.

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Uncle Alex takes a snooze by the fire in my parents house.

This must have been in the early 1950's as the room was changed by removing the cupboards you see beside him. The windows were removed and a bay-window installed.

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I am not sure what Jane has collected here - possibly bluebells?

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Mother all dressed up, sitting in the front garden by the house on Fairholm.

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On the left is Mary, uncle Alex and aunt Lizzie's daughter in law. Then 'Gram', uncle Murray, my mum and 'Da'. The other young girl and the man at the back I cannot identify.

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My mum.

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A hand colourised picture of my mother.

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My father and mother amongst their friends.

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Father and son in my parents apartment on Main Street.

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My dad and mum - and 'Kim'

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On a visit home in the 80's my dad and I.

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'Granny'.

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Mother and I with 'Tiny' the dog on the front steps of our home.

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Jane and 'Tiny' walking up the 'Fell' in wintertime 1960's.

Behind them you see Wild Boar and Longstone fells.

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Aunt Doreen and my mother outside the vicarage in Barbon.

'Gaffa' was moved by the Church from Middleton to Barbon, a few miles down the road.

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Uncle Murray, aunt Ada, my mum, Tony, Jane and me on the right hand end.

We used to have quite long walks on a Sunday afternoon, working off the lunch. We did however plan to catch the bus my father would be driving to take us back to the village.

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Back in the early 1950's in the front room at home, uncle Alex and Jane at the front, 'Da', me and 'Gram' in the middle row and my dad, aunt Lizzie, aunt Ada, uncle Murray and my mum at the back.

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Here is my mother when quite young, standing at the front door of my grandparents house on Fairholm.

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My mother loved to travel. It made a change from being in the village all the time. My dad. He had done enough travelling!

She went on an excursion to Paris with a group from the village. Enjoyed herself.

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'Tiny', Jane,'Kim', my mum.

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'Gaffa' and 'Granny' at Middleton vicarage.

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'Da' outside the back of the house on Fairholm.

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'Gaffa' is sitting in the chair. Behind him on his left is a man I knew as Johnny Bullows, a millionaire who lived in the village and was presumably a patron of the church.

The other man I can not name.

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Somewhere out a\on a bus tour, my dad is next to the daughter of the headmaster of the primary school I attended. He and my dad were good friends.

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Me probably about 8 or 9 years old.

The badge is an eagle - from one of the comics my parents bought for me. The tie I have is interesting, especially when you know where I am now, has native american headress prints on it.

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My mother stand next to 'Gram' in the doorway of Uncle Alex home in Stockton.

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Uncle Murray with Jane at our home.

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Jane with our mum.

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Dad, mum, Barbara and Neil.

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Mother, suitably winterised.

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Jane.

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My father at his 80'th birthday party.

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Aunt Ada.

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My mum with unidentified child and unknown location.

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This would be around 1958. Jane's friend, Jane our mum and me.

This was taken next to the 'pepperpot', a summer house that was built by the local mill owner as part of his estate. It fell into ruin but in the last few years has been restored by a trust.

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My dad in his later years in the garden of Neil's home in Stockton. The dog belongs to Neil.

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Uncle Murray and aunt Ada.

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This is life in South Africa. This is how I cut the lawn....

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Jane.

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My mum at the vicarage in Middleton.

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Jane having an outing in her pram.

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In the garden at home, my mother with a lady I think was my primary school headmaster's wife.

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My turn in a pram with Jane in charge.

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Uncle Murray, aunt Ada and my dad exposing a sexy knee.

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Grandma with my mum. I don't know the location.

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Aunt Doreen.

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The man on the left I do not know, mother, 'Da' and 'Gram'.

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Jane displaying her brother - me..

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Aunt Ada, uncle Murray, 'Gram' and Janein the front.

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Jane and I on the beach.

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Mother, Major, aunt Ada and uncle Murray.

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Sometime in the 1960's when 'Gaffa' was still at Middleton you see 'Granny' on the left, uncle Mark, 'Gaffa', my dad in his driver's uniform and aunt Doreen on the right.

This is the full family - without kids!