Each week Sepia Saturday encourages bloggers to record their family history through photographs. This week's prompt features a wine label, but I must admit my family are an abstemious lot, and I was only able to unearth one vintage photographs to match the theme.
So - Raise your glasses this week for a convivial drink!
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| The only photograph I have of my great grandfather James Danson,. sitting merrily in the stocks at Poulton-le-Fylde. By all accounts of his family, he was a bit of a ne'er do well, but clearly having fun in what could be a staged photograph. |
Or this case raise your German Beer Stein! This ornate one, with a pewter lid is decorated in the Bavarian colours of blue and white. And yes - it was bought as a holiday souvenir.
Enjoying the Good Life
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In a Munich Biergarten  |
On an Austrian Mountainside
I must admit I took
this photograph rather surreptitiously in a cafe bar in Munch Square, in
Bavaria, Germany. The two men looked so genial sitting there with
their huge beer tankards. Combined with the sign, this seemed such a
good photograph to take to typify the Bavarian scene. Meanwhile we were
indulging in a drink and "kuche" -(cakes).
A Bavarian sign celebrating the grape.
An old whisky sign taken at Beamish Open Air Museum in north east England
A sign painted by my father-in-law (left) who was a painter & sign-writer in Edinburgh .
The Pot Still at Glenkinchie Distillery
Clydesdale Horses pulling the dray advertising Vaux Brewery Fine Ales.
A sign painted by my father-in-law (left) who was a painter & sign-writer in Edinburgh .
The Pot Still at Glenkinchie Distillery
A typically English pub sign at Greenwich,in London
A Final Toast - Cheers!
Sign at the Beacon Hill pub in Boston
that inspired the TV programme launched in 1982.
that inspired the TV programme launched in 1982.
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A nice collection of photos and signs relating to the making, selling and drinking of alcoholic beverages, despite your family's abstemiousness!
ReplyDeleteIs that really a WORD? Abstemious? It's the best thing I've learned all week...what a mouthful!
ReplyDeleteGreat bunch of photographs, thanks for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteYOu sure came up with a lot of photos having to do with wishing others good cheer...including that pub in Boston which led to that jolly TV show Cheers. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhat a splendid still. My sister worked in quality control at a pharmaceutical company and a still figured in the manufacture of something. One day it quit and my sister for days thereafter was pleased to issue the favorite inter-office memo of her career stating, "The still is still still." Your father-in-law's sign still looks good...that kind of cinemascope effect catches the eye.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot more pictures involving drinks than I do of my family, who make no pretense of abstaining.
ReplyDeleteA fine medley of mixed drinks. I often take photos of memorable pub signs too.
ReplyDeleteSuch a great post Sue. I didn't even try to find anything in my bunch of photos. You did really well. Helen I had a good giggle at the still is still still :)
ReplyDeleteA fine gallery Sue and I raise a glass to your father-in-law’s skill at signwriting.
ReplyDeleteLook at the precision of your father-in-law's sign! It is easy to do that on the computer, but by hand - oh the time it took to measure and space it out and keep it all straight. This entire post felt like a holiday, so cheerful and fun.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to fellow bloggers for your comments. This was one off those posts, where initially I felt I had very little to reflect the prompt, and then all of a sudden, photographs came to mind. That is the fun of Sepia Saturday!
ReplyDeleteSuch nice photos of people raising a glass of cheer. I don't drink so I'm always feeling odd when I have to raise an empty glass or one containing water. Water just doesn't seem to feel like a cheerful drink.
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