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  • Bruiser baby

    Miss Dartford 1950
    I can recognise you from these!
  • Bottom right in beloved Snorkel Parka. No idea where this was.

    St James' Park. Horseguards Road with the Foreign Office in the background. Horseguards Parade would be on your right over the road.


  • Used to love these days, when we were on holiday in Ireland. Ride the donkey up to the bog on the mountain, fill the baskets with turf and then lead the donkey down to store the turf away for the winter. Think this was about 74, so I be 10.
    1974 you say.
    that probably explains the donkey sporting a suzi Quattro fringe.
  • German
    German Posts: 95
     Some of the Clan McCann Glasgow 1964 before we arrived in SE London to find our home from home paradise   . . . Brother Neil , Sister Eileen & myself 3 season ticket holders NWQ . . . 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,970
    Is that a Crackerjack jumper?
    CRACKERJACK!

    (well someone had to)
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Bottom right in beloved Snorkel Parka. No idea where this was.

    Horse Guards Parade?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Bottom right in beloved Snorkel Parka. No idea where this was.

    Horse Guards Parade?
  • Bottom right in beloved Snorkel Parka. No idea where this was.

    Horse Guards Parade?
    St James Park...(opposite Horse Guards Parade)
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    aliwibble said:
    @CharltonKerry It's possible to make the image bigger by fiddling with the width of the link, but it's still limited by the size of the original picture and the resolution it was scanned at. This is about the best I can do I think:
    Thank you very much Aliwibble for doing that for me, much appreciated, as I say the photo is 65 years old and the actual size is around 2” x 1” in black and white, it’s my first memory as well, no doubt because of this photo, it was taken around 1954 in I believe Andover or Stockbridge near there, by my dads best mate who was a toff and a landed gentleman, two more of the most unlikely friends you could imagine. They meet on their first day in Burma, they hated each other and ended up fighting at bed time as Uncle Arthur had silk pyjamas in the heart of a jungle, my dad coming from the roughest part of the east of Dartford didn’t have any. They ended up best mates, and Arthur saved my dads life when they fought back to back and my father got a bayonet through his thigh and got pinned to a tree, Arthur never left Dads side all that very long night. Some of the things they got up to were unconventional, both were experts in explosives, and Arthur secretly fell in love with my mum because a single photo dad carried through that period. When they came home eventually they met up when I was born, then again when this photo was taken. It means a great deal to me as you can tell. When Arthur died far to young was the only time I saw my dad cry, Arthur’s wife at his funeral told us that she was his second love my mum was always his first love. As I say thanks, one day it’s going into a book of our lives.
    Were they Chindits?
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Handsome kid wasn't I? That apparently changed about the same time I got interested in girls.

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  • Love these type of threads. We all come from somewhere.
  • aliwibble said:
    @CharltonKerry It's possible to make the image bigger by fiddling with the width of the link, but it's still limited by the size of the original picture and the resolution it was scanned at. This is about the best I can do I think:
    Thank you very much Aliwibble for doing that for me, much appreciated, as I say the photo is 65 years old and the actual size is around 2” x 1” in black and white, it’s my first memory as well, no doubt because of this photo, it was taken around 1954 in I believe Andover or Stockbridge near there, by my dads best mate who was a toff and a landed gentleman, two more of the most unlikely friends you could imagine. They meet on their first day in Burma, they hated each other and ended up fighting at bed time as Uncle Arthur had silk pyjamas in the heart of a jungle, my dad coming from the roughest part of the east of Dartford didn’t have any. They ended up best mates, and Arthur saved my dads life when they fought back to back and my father got a bayonet through his thigh and got pinned to a tree, Arthur never left Dads side all that very long night. Some of the things they got up to were unconventional, both were experts in explosives, and Arthur secretly fell in love with my mum because a single photo dad carried through that period. When they came home eventually they met up when I was born, then again when this photo was taken. It means a great deal to me as you can tell. When Arthur died far to young was the only time I saw my dad cry, Arthur’s wife at his funeral told us that she was his second love my mum was always his first love. As I say thanks, one day it’s going into a book of our lives.
    Were they Chindits?
    No they weren’t, they were in action well before them. They were a specialised group, basically if it moved they blew it up, if it didn’t then they blew it up. There job was to disrupt the supply routes. When Imphal and Kohima were being defended they had already been behind the Japanese lines for 6 months, those in charge knew the Japanese had overstretched themselves and there group were ordered to cause chaos, they did. It was a group of British, Australians and Gurkhas, who you didn’t want to meet down a dark alley or in a jungle, most were expert in jungle warfare, my father was an expert in demolition and the Gurkhas were the expert in killing, but to my surprise directly there group were attacked, the Gurkhas disappeared into the jungle to do there dirty work, they never were allowed to fight defensively that was the job of the British and Australians lads.
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  • Pretty sure those were hand-me-down from my sister. Ahh those were the days  70's haircuts weren't just tragic for adults.

    Taken in the summer, shortly after moving to Sheffield in 76' -the hot one!


  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    I think this would have been at Invicta
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,210
    It really shows how phone cameras have developed over the years 😉
  • Me and Grandad at my cousin's wedding probably early 1960s. And before you ask no I'm not wearing a frisbee on my head, it was a very stylish hat my mum made me wear!!  😱
  • Oh dear sorry that attachment didn't work very well. Probably for the best if you can't see it!!

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    edited November 2020
    lindos480 said:
    Me and Grandad at my cousin's wedding probably early 1960s. And before you ask no I'm not wearing a frisbee on my head, it was a very stylish hat my mum made me wear!!  😱
    I thought you were smuggling your own big plate into the reception, Alan Partridge style. ;)
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  • St. Paul's Wood Hill,  St. Paul's Cray, Orpington,  circac1969 ?

  • Tell me where you got your barnet cut.  I'll avoid them.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648

    Tell me where you got your barnet cut.  I'll avoid them.
    At least he don’t look miserable.
  • Henske
    Henske Posts: 119
    In my back garden in Greenwich. I’m the one on the left.




  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Henske said:
    In my back garden in Greenwich. I’m the one on the left.




    That's a proper snowman
  • Henske
    Henske Posts: 119
    He was well proper. . I think he was wearing my Dad’s Charlton hat too. 
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    lindos480 said:
    Oh dear sorry that attachment didn't work very well. Probably for the best if you can't see it!!
    The hat looks like a halo in a 16th century religious painting  :)
  • Henske
    Henske Posts: 119
    Probably the closest I ever came to looking at all spiritua if you’re right!!
  • Henske
    Henske Posts: 119
    Spiritual I meant.