a poetical response following close observation: pebbles for rivers of stones
Tuesday 15 May 2012
Key to identification
From some nine mostly unlabelled photograph albums and using what I knew of who and when I eventually identified all but two on this Christmas day 1905 photograph.
Oh well done. I have a few photos of my 'great-grands' but I can't work out who's who.
I love the look of the dapper guy with the bow tie. He looks almost like he's been added in because he seems much more modern than the others. I know I have just read a book about time travel but he puts me in mind of Henry DeTamble slipping back to see some of his ancestors.
The dapper guy - Harry, Tom and Sarah's eldest son - had recently returned from America, where he had been working as an engineer for a couple of years, and had visited his farming brothers in Canada before coming home, so you could say he'd been modernised! In fact, he reminds me a lot of my elder son who also closely resembles Louis Theroux ...
That trans-Atlantic influence definitely shows. In 1905 my grandfather (dad's side) and his parents were in the States too. In fact he was born out there. I wonder if that's why he looks so much more up-to-date than my other grandad in the inchie. Both those photos were taken in the very early 30s though.
Oh well done. I have a few photos of my 'great-grands' but I can't work out who's who.
ReplyDeleteI love the look of the dapper guy with the bow tie. He looks almost like he's been added in because he seems much more modern than the others. I know I have just read a book about time travel but he puts me in mind of Henry DeTamble slipping back to see some of his ancestors.
The dapper guy - Harry, Tom and Sarah's eldest son - had recently returned from America, where he had been working as an engineer for a couple of years, and had visited his farming brothers in Canada before coming home, so you could say he'd been modernised!
DeleteIn fact, he reminds me a lot of my elder son who also closely resembles Louis Theroux ...
That trans-Atlantic influence definitely shows.
DeleteIn 1905 my grandfather (dad's side) and his parents were in the States too. In fact he was born out there. I wonder if that's why he looks so much more up-to-date than my other grandad in the inchie. Both those photos were taken in the very early 30s though.