Well I promised you more and here it is: Some very old photos from Mum's album. I'll be using some of them in the new edition of Barbar's diaries (to be released imminently).
We start with one from 1915-ish - dates are approximate - and end in 1965 with the arrival of Paul. Mum, do tell me if dates need correcting.
Click the headline for more. x George.
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1915: Arthur Gibbs. My Grandfather. |
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1915: Arthur Gibbs |
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1935: Mum. She assures me it was not a real chimp. |
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1949: Uncle Bill and Aunt Cherry wedding |
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1949: Bill and Cherry wedding |
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1949: Bill and Cherry wedding |
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1949: Dad and Barbar Gibbs (my maternal Grandmother) |
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1950: Barbar |
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1950s: Barbar |
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1950s: Jack Keeling, my Grandpa |
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1950s: Tony Berry and Barbar |
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1950s: Uncle David Gibbs and Barbar |
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1950s: Great great aunt Alice (or is that Allis?) |
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1951: Christopher Hudson's christening. Grandpa Gibbs is holding Serena aged 3....in a rather uncomfortable grasp! [Thanks for the tip Alex] |
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April 24 1951: Mum and Dad's wedding |
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1951: Wedding. Granny, Barbar, Grandpa, Uncle David |
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1951: Wedding. Barbar, Dad, Mum, Aunt Cherry Gibbs, Uncle Brian Keeling |
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1951: Wedding. Mum and Dad |
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1951: Wedding. Granny and Grandpa welcoming Pete Gardiner-Hill and his mother. |
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1951: Wedding. Barbar and Uncle David welcoming guests. |
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1952: Barbar and Robert |
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1951: Barbar and Dad |
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1951: Barbar and Dad |
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1951: Barbar and victims |
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1955: Babies are popping. Trevor, George, Robert |
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1957: Trevor, Robert, Mum, George, Simon |
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1957: George, Robert, Trevor at Hurst |
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1957 at Hurst: Uncles Brian, Johnny, Herbert. Dad
Aunts Biddy, Robby (Johnny's 1st wife), Cally. Mum Cousins Patrick, Sarah. Trevor, Granny, Robert, Grandpa, George and various dogs. |
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1958: Trevor, Robert, Patrick, Sarah, George |
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1958: George |
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1962: Robert, David, Mum, Trevor, Tom, George, Simon |
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1965: Brood completed with Paul.
Trevor, Tom, Mum, George, Paul, David, Jim, Simon, Robert |
All these photos and a few more can still be found in Mum's old albums at Jacobs.
Comments
Amazing Dad. Haven't been on the blog for ages and had totally missed these going up. I have made the your chubby, grumpy, younger self my screen saver xx
Posted by: Ruth | January 09, 2011 at 01:55 PM
I love looking at all these wonderful pics. The third photo titled 'Bill and Cherry's wedding' is actually Christopher Hudson's christening. Grandpa Gibbs is holding Serena aged 3 who definitely wasn't born out of wedlock....in a rather uncomfortable grasp! No sign of Bill and Cherry anywhere!
xxAlex
George writes: Thanks for the tip Alex. I have moved the photo down to get it into chronological order and changed the caption.
Posted by: Alex Crockatt | December 19, 2010 at 02:27 PM
George, you star. What pleasure you give. Trev
Posted by: Trev | October 03, 2010 at 01:37 PM
Great pictures! I wonder if it was a stuffed chimpanzee?
1950s Unknown and Barbar is Tony Berry.
1951 wedding, Granny and Grandpa welcoming Pete Gardiner-Hill and his mother.
Family photograph,Ruby is Robby, Johnny's 1st wife.
Posted by: Mum | October 03, 2010 at 12:55 PM
wonderful! thank you George, xxx
Posted by: camilla | October 03, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Fantastic work George,but surely we can find out who the unknowns are? Bri's squeeze and Babar's young man??
Posted by: Paul K | October 02, 2010 at 04:22 PM
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