Five Generations in the Back Yard. - Sepia Saturday

An image of a young girl sitting in a deck chair in her "back yard"  is this week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday and below are five generations of my family taken in their varied back yards. 

There is an anecdote  here connected with "back yard". Many years ago I spent a year working in the USA and was invited to visit a work colleague, who commented that we would sit in the "back yard".  I wasn't too sure about that prospect .  It conjured up an image of soap opera Coronation Street with back-to-back terraced houses with a small paved or cobbled   back yard for storing the dustbins and bikes - very utilitarian.  I was wrong,  of course,  with my interpretation, for Instead I found that this American "back yard"  was a large garden with a beautiful lawn and flower beds - so much for transatlantic misunderstandings!   

My first photograph was taken in a typical English back yard where my grandparents William Danson and Alice English posed for a photograph before he set off for war in  1916.   They lived in a terraced house on Bull Street, just off the Square, in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire,  The houses were demolished in the 1960's and replaced by a small shoppingm all.

William Danson  and Alice English - my grandparents , 1916.

Bull Street, Poulton-le-Fylde, where my Danson grandparents lived until 1926.

Playing in the back garden - 
my aunt  Edith (seated) & mother Kathleen Danson, c.1914

My mother in the back garden of her first married home, c.1938

My first photo with my Dad  in the back garden of home. 1944 

 

 Me - on the back door step of our home, 1944

 

The same back garden - this time with my mother and pet kitten, c.1946  I cannot remember the kitten,  and I would have moved that dustbin out of the picture!

 

Onto 1968  and   our home in Edinburgh .  
  .  My aunt Edith, seated,  with Mum on the grass (50 years from the earlier  photograph above), with  Dad -  plus my brother oblivious to it all! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me - enjoying the sun in Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1966. 

                     

Onto 1981 and the back garden of our home in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.  It is summer and this is my first attempt (and virtually the last)  at cooking on a barbecue, but my efforts fell foul of the weather - hence the umbrella. Did I really need that watering can there as a health & safety measure?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                              

 Daughter outside our back door  - c.1990

 

1998  - a lovely family group of three generations, taken after my brother's (second) wedding - and yes he did wear that red shirt for the occasion!

Dad in the middle, with my niece and daughter seated. 

 

 

And finally - the  fifth generation of the family 

Our little granddaughter enjoying her back garden.

Happy family photographs that make me smile! 

 

 

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