I’m just
a bit into my family history and tonight I was looking at some of my family
pictures.
I
think this shot of my Mum and Dad has to be one of my most favourite ones.
They lived on
opposite sides of Beckton Road. A cobbled street in Canning Town, in London’s
East End. Mum’s family at 21 and the Dad’s
at 28. Most Canning Town residents worked on the nearby docks, The Thames
Ironworks or perhaps The Beckton Gasworks. Mums father was a Merchant Seaman, and Nan did her bit to
support the family by doing domestic work and bar-maiding at the local Beckton
Arms, conveniently situated just across the road, next to the fish shop and the
bakery.
This next one was
taken in Dad’s parents back yard. It may wellhave been taken during his ten
days embarkation leave before being
shipped off to India.
And lastly here
they are now in New Zealand, c1954-55. Yes, that’s me and my sister there too. I’m
the little one.
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