jubilee weekend

[llywela]

So, today we are celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee - 60 years on the throne. The extra bank holiday and lovely long weekend is much appreciated, although last weekend would have worked out better than this one, weather-wise!

I've found some old family photos from 1952 - including a couple of the coronation street party my dad's family were part of! (Dad is the wee little dwt, the smallest of the little lads in the last two pics)



And my mum's family in 1952! (Mum is the babe in arms!)

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

What brilliant pics! Your family history collection is wonderful! *g*

Do you know the Dear Photograph site at all? Do you think anything you've got might work well like that? I'd love to give it a go, but the family pics I have from over here are of people I never knew, which is a slightly different thing. I love the way it shows the continuity of memories and families and loves though...

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I hadn't seen that site before, no - awesome. Alas, I don't think I have any pics that would work quite like that, except maybe some taken up at the waterfall in the Brecon Beacons - we still go there regularly now, and I've got photos taken there by the family from way back in the 1960s and 70s!

I love my collection of family photos. Even the picture of people I never met are full of associations, although of course it helps that there are still people alive able to tell stories about at least some of them, to give additional context. But even those about whom I know nothing beyond their place in the family tree, just being able to trace that connection from them to me is enough to give the pictures meaning. Plus, tracing resemblances from generation to generation is never not fun!

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

Aww, these pics are precious! I love old family photos, makes me go back in time and picture the life back then.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics! My mum was 16 in 1952 - must ask her what she remembers...

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, they're lovely pics! Thanks for sharing them. I love family history things, and old photos. Aw. They seem to be having fun. :-)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ta - I have the most awesome collection of old family photos, some dating back to the 1890s! I did a huge digitisation project a couple of years ago, collecting a stack of old photos from various family members and scanning them all. My inner historian was in heaven!

[thisbluespirit]

You're very lucky. We've got some nice ones, too, that I've scanned most of in, but I think the oldest we have dates back to the early 1900s. (Which is still pretty great, of course.)

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Ooh these are really neat! Though ngl, the first few mostly remind me of the scenes of the banners and street parties in "The Idiot's Lantern"...;)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Goes to show how accurate the period detail in that episode was!

[kelzies.livejournal.com]

Lovely family photos! Love old family photos, interesting to see how things were way back when :3