The First Time We Met: Sepia Saturday

A happy famiy proudly cooing over their baby is the this week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday   A short post, for a change from me this week, as  I recall the first time my father met me.  

I was a wartime  baby and Dad  had to wait until he was on leave to see me. 

Following the deaths of both  my parents, I found a number of letters they exchanged in 1944, whilst my father was serving in the RAF as a Code and Cipher Clerk in France. In one letter, Dad asked for “A  Photograph of Baby" - and this studio portrait was the result.  The Photographer was W. R. Buckley & Son, Regent Studio, Cocker Street, Blackpool. 

 

 

 This photograph too means a lot of me, as my mother looks so happy and stylish with her typical 40's hairstyle and elegant dress. I can  only remember Mum with grey hair worn  in a French pleat.  But the picture came as a surprise, as I had  never seen it before,   with no copy in the family album of my childhood.  Just before my marriage, my  future husband and I were visiting an old family friend of my parents,   when she brought out this picture and gave it to us.  I was delighted to have it!

 A later wartime picture taken on Blackpool Beach, Lancashire.

A typical happy 1950s family photo

 A proud father and daughter 1971. 

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to share their family history and memories through photographs

 

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