A scan of a short strip of 35mm colour negatives taken in Cleethorpes and Grimsby sometime in the mid 1980s. CLEETHORPES : The mud-like sands at Cleethorpes. The line of container ships waiting their turn to sail up the Humber to unload at Immingham. The wooden pier with planks that look as if they have … Continue reading Negative Archives : Seaside Drive
Month: April 2020
Family Archives : April 2020
ENOCH BURNETT AND BETTY : Enoch Burnett pictured with his dog, Betty. The picture shows Enoch aged around 30, which would mean it was taken in 1908 or there about. By then, he had been married for three years and already had three children: John Arthur (b.1899); Miriam (b.1901); and Annie Elizabeth (b.1903).
A Toe In The Sea
A family photograph from, probably, the summer of 1950. The small child is me, the head and shoulder belong to my brother, Roger, and the knees belong to my father, Albert. I suspect the photograph was taken at Bridlington, and I suspect that the North Sea was as cold then as it is now.
A Bit Of A Mystery
As I trawl my way through my old photographs, many of which were taken more than fifty years ago, I recognise many immediately and can even remember the walk I was on when I took them. Others, however, remain a mystery, and today's photographs are a perfect example of this. It is clearly an old … Continue reading A Bit Of A Mystery
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