Christmas Day with the Countess 2014

Christmas 1961

Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year to all!

A very fine portrait

From the newly acquired boxes of glass plate negatives. Preparing scans for a new post.
5x7 inch dry plate glass negative.

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The Grave - Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote (Lucas Cleeve)

This is the grave of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote in Switzerland. She was a novelist with over 60 published works.

Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote

 "Lucas Cleeve"

 B. 16 Nov. 1862

 D. 13 Sept. 1908

Link to more information here


5x7 inch dry plate glass negative

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The dinner party

5x7 inch dry plate glass negative

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Delicate Victorian photo album

"Just a line to say we are all alive"

From a collection of photos, no other of this woman sadly. Minnie?

"Love from all to all, Minnie"

Formerly "Beards"

Carte de Visite:

Helsby & Co, Photographic Artists
Formerly "Beards"

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The Scholars

Cabinet card. W. Palfery, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Somerset.

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Scouting August 6th 1921 - A note book from Vic

A sweet notebook from Scout's Summer Camp 1921 in Danbury written by Vic.


A note from Angela:

Camping

It seemed odd looking through my Uncle Vic's little notebook. Seemed odd that my dad and his brothers went camping at Danbury  with the 1^st Hockley Scouts 50 odd years before I went camping there with 1^st Hockley Girl Guides.

Some of it sticks in my mind.  It rained a lot and we were flooded, I woke up and my hand touched water, a stream of water running though the tent.  My friend Jane was sleeping on a camp bed next to me (she’d had a rheumatic fever or some such so wasn’t to sleep on the ground.) We spent the rest of the night inside somewhere.   

I forget all the Guide terms but anyway Jane was a higher grade, maybe Patrol Leader or she was doing the badge for that.  I was doing my Campers badge (I failed).  It all went wrong, especially the cooking.  It’s probably the reason that I’m not keen on blackberries, I remember sitting down to eat some with a spoon and there were maggots crawling up the side of the bowls.

Sadly there are no photos....or maybe that’s good.

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Angela's Dad, 2nd left . . . Uncle Vic, far right

Angela, front row, 2nd left

Dorrie Milner's last days of the season 1933

A page from the first of Dorrie Milner's (4) albums.

Remnants of the Band
The last days of the season.

Dorrie is in the right hand picture, far right with the sunbeam shining her way forward.

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Family in snow

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The Newnes' Holiday Annual 1931

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The man in the field

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It's time for a VW Camper Van holiday October 1973

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Happy and Sad

11x8cm negative.

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A little bit of garden maintenance

Glass plate negative.

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