Generations in the Back Yard - Sepia Saturday

A happy family group sitting in their  "back yard"  is this week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday.   Below are five generations of my family taken in their varied back yards.  

 

 

 

This was the family photograph I took with me when I left home for the first time for a year working in the USA.  Taken in the back garden in our home in Edinburgh, 1965.

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 TV's soap opera "Coronation Street" set in the north of England, 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!  

 

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Taken in a typical English back yard, 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 shopping mall. 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing in the back yard, my mother Kathleen Danson and her sister Edith. c.1914, daughters of William and Alice above. 

 

 

A typical back yard in South Shields, County Durham.  Here my husband perched on the bike with his older brother keeping watch. c.1941. 

 

My husband with his maternal grandparents  Matthew Iley White & Alice Armitage.  South Shields,   c.1939. 

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My husband this time on the shoulder of his Uncle Matty 
with his father Jim alongside  in a very natty pullover, c.1940

 

 

 

 

 My mother in their first married home, mnear Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire c.1938. 

 

The same back gardeb  c.1944  and the first picture of myuself with my father.  m

 

 

 Outside our back door.  

 

 

 

 Little me, perched on  my very own chair  which was passed down (with new covers) to my daughter and grandaughter - but we never thought to take a photograph of   them in it - a pity! 

 

 

Enjoying sun, wearing the popular style of the day - a skirt with straps.  

 

To  the younger generations

 

  

 

Daughter on the back door step,  Hawicm in the SCottish Borders c.1990

                                                

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Granddaughter in  the back garden exploring this new world of snow for the first time in 2010.  Earlston, Scottish Borders. 

 

 

 

 

Somebody's idea of fun!  Playing at snow angels in he back garden 2018.  

 

1998  - a lovely family group of three generations, taken after my brother's wedding - and yes he did wear that red shirt for the occasion! v Dad in the middle, with my niece and daughter seated. 

Happy family photographs that make me smile! 

 

 

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