Memory Corner.. For your old photos, memories & stories..

My old man in 1973:

 

My father when he was stationed in Nairobi


That brown stain on the upper right hand corner? All my fault ... I had taken this photo to school for showing. That same day, in Home Economics, we made a chocolate blancmange. Our class was the final class of the school day, so, it never set and spilt in my school bag with the photos Seemed such a disaster at the time - didn't dare tell my mother I'd ruined the photo ... but then, if it hadn't been for that blancmange ... I wouldn't have still had the photo

 

What a wonderful thread! I like peeking through old pictures and even more so if they are of familiar people. (maybe I will find some old pics myself - who knows, one day... tidying up...)

 

Do you know, the more I look at this, the more I think ...

... pop a long wig on and you would be the spitting image of your Dad!

 

This photo is of my cousin Al on his last leave from service. Al was in the U.S Army Air Force, 457 Bombardment Group stationed in the UK at an airfield called Glatton at the time. It was near Peterborough and one of Al's friends told me that they had great times in Peterborough. Sadly, Al's plane was shot down on a mission to bomb an ordinance plant at Oranienburg, Germany on April 10, 1945 shortly before the end of the war, Al did not survive. I am the little guy wearing the big hat.

 

Our daughter trained at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital. On completion of her training she became a specialised menigitis SCABU nurse and was responsible for the dedicated ward at another hospital.
She eventually gave up work when her first child was born, she has four children, the youngest she had at the age of 42.
This photo is just over thirty years old. She's front row, second from the left. She's still friends with the boy in the back row on the right.

Weren't they well turned out in those days? They were provided with a freshly laundered overall, or set of scrubs for every shift.
And none of that "I've got a degree, I'm not going to clean up sick," nonsense, our son's partner who is a senior nurse in a Manchester hospital, gets from the new intake.

 

Your the one in front of Ena Sharples I guess

 

Talking of Ena Sharples...... not that I can remember her as I was very young but Violet Carson lived just a few doors down from us in Blackpool.

 

And, talking of Ena Sharples I saw her in Coronation Street's first episode on my parents' Vidor TV. Had a pair of specs made about then, but didn't like them. Still have these and hubby says he'll scan a photo to here... when he finds the time.
Mrs Uztwo