And Dolly Came Too - Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday  is a weekly theme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs

Joseph Prince Oldham (1855-1917) and his granddaughter Elsie (1906-1989) - plus Dolly  

Elsie Oldham and my mother, Kathleen Danson,  were second cousins, and I am  grateful for Elsie's son, Stuart for the use of this lovely photograph.

Joseph became a carter and coal merchant in Blackpool, Lancashire, in a house with stables,  opposite the North Station.  His son John William Oldham carried on the business. 

In the 1920's, Elsie became the  hairdresser "Elise", working from the family home. 

For more photographs and stories of the Oldham family, see:
Finding a Third Cousin
And Dolly Came Too
Three Generations of Carters & Coal Merchants  What a  Magnificent Hat!