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Yes, you had mentioned that and that is SO AWESOME!!! Wish I could say the same, but our connection to the Island was happenstance!!! Mom and Dad were sailing up from City Island, NY in the very early Fifties.....weather turned bad and they pulled in for an overnight until the storm passed....next day they took an Island Tour.....saw the house For Sale that we wound up owning for 48 years.....end of story!!!!! Well, not really, but it suffices!!!! And the Island is forever a part of my heart!!!!!

 

I'll have to post some of my photos from last summer. I hope to get back there this summer. It's such a gem. It's like a tiny version of Nantucket without the hordes.

 

If you'd like, let me know when you go....we're ALWAYS there the first two weeks in August....staying at my BIL's cottage with our two FURbabies!!! Would love to meet you! Did you check out the cemetery to see if there are any relative's tombstones you can take rubbings of????

 

Thanks Figtree, I hoped you'd like it!

Aquitaine, thanks for the link. It looks like it would take some time to go through that book . It's a great resource though, and from the right time period too!

Here's another photo, that came as part of a job lot. No idea who or where (probably Northwest of England), or what the occasion was, although it seemed to involve flags...

 

This one's not even that old, but I just thought it was so sweet. Somebody's nana posing with her BUDGIE perched on her glasses. I almost got choked up. Just so 1950, with her wax fruit and frilly vase, and Danish Modern (?) divan, and floral curtains. Almost looks like a mobile home or trailer?

 

Grandmakeet

 

Photographer moved to that address in 1885 so photograph would have been taken same year.

Debora

 

These are some old family photos that I've scanned and have put the originals safely away. These are some of my favorites.



My great-grandparents. They were married one week before he left for France in early 1918. He came home in 1919 and was discharged out of the Army in 1920.



My wife's great-grandparents and their family. My wife's grandfather is the young man on the far right. Her great-grandfather was a medic in the British Army, and served first in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, and later in France and Belgium. His eldest son served with the Northumberland Fusiliers and was taken as a prisoner of war in 1917.



Another photo of my wife's great grandfather and his eldest two sons. This must have been taken soon after the war. The eldest son at the top right was the one taken prisoner. The son at the top left joined the Royal Air Corps in 1918.




My wife's great-grandfather at a field hospital somewhere in France or Belgium during World War I.



My grandfather, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, in Cairo, Egypt in February 1945. He is at the front row, far right.

 

WOW!!!!
Thank you!!!
And thank you for their service!

 

Me dada was there then! Though he was not regular Army Air Force - but he was attached to them as a State Department liaison/advisor and eventually assisted with the formation of the US Air Force, of which he was a member for a short time.

 

My grandfather said Cairo was the natiest, dirtiest place he had even been to. He was also amazed at the thieving skills of the locals. Here is one of him in Iraq. He said the nomads would pass by camp and trade with them.

 

Aww, I love this... reminds me of my grandmother, who kept minah birds in her living room. The decor looks quite 60s to me, and maybe a caravan?

 

Just thought I'd share this CDV... I showed it to my family, who were convinced it was a girl. But the name on the back is for a boy, and as we know young boys wore dresses in those days, until they were breeched.

I've checked the name and birth date (1878) and George Edward Hallett seems to have lived and died (1965) in Plymouth, England, and worked as a watchmaker/jeweller in his adult life .

 

Definitely a caravan (or trailer as my American compatriots would call it) - the bitty window in what would be a hall but is probably a sleeping area - and if you look at the divan she is sitting on you can see the button tufting just under the seat - the sign of a fold out bed..............

 

I first thought she might be on holiday, but would she have taken her budgie with her? It just doesn't look cluttered enough to be a home (MY home, haha!).

 

She has just retired to Florida (where else?) and parked "permanently" in a space at the Shady Rest Mobile Home and Trailer Park - with a Community Centre and all utility hookups included...............and her children are now wondering what to do with all of the "treasures" that Mom said they have to keep but she can't fit into her low maintenance, low cost and low space retirement home...................

With those ornaments on the shelves above her head, she ain't moving that sucker for a while.......................

 

Haha, we could write a book! That's what I love so much about these old photos - each one tells a story

 

love your photo Batman

 

Isn't this sweet?
Daguerreotype with pretty young girl and parrot. The bird is one of the smaller Amazon species.

 

You own this? Cool!