My great grandmother.... Pictures by crazydi

Great grandmother !
Fantastic !
Well done on transferring this to GoY :o)

great photo to have Di

What a nice photo... so is your GGM the one with her hands on the baby carriage...so many hats cannot decide which is straw or not...it is such a beautiful carriage as well.

Thank you Di - It came out great - what a fabulous photo they all look very grand - I am soo loving the pram - thanks again for uploading x PS Welcome Grandma Martha to GOY

Brilliant Di :)))
I have a real interest in seeing old, family photos.
They show us what we're missing today - in various ways !

Angie, that pram's a beauty isn't it ?

Lol....great grandmother is the lady stood behind the chap with the baby on his knee. The lady with the pram (or "bassinet" I think they called it in those days...) was the nanny :)

It's a very ornate pram Di, really lovely.

So the little fluffy child all dressed up there is your grand father? I have always enjoyed that our great grand parents wore dresses and ruffles boy or girl in those days...and these days it is all pink and blue..well here it is anyway..

This is lovely family scene Di - thanks for sharing it x

Great old photo of your family. Love it!

Thank you for your kind comments...I'm pleased you like my family portrait ! Apparently, in those days it was quite a big deal to have an outdoor photo taken, as most photos were taken in photographers' studios. It's quite amazing to think how technology has evolved in just over a century....

That is a lovely photo.Fantastic clothes and Oh! that pram is just beautiful.I guess you love family history.Are you on Ancestry?

The frame of the pram would make a lovely item for your garden! Just your style! A lovely photo.

thats a fantastic photo- I love the pram

Thanks guys....and No, I'm not on "Ancestry" Avis (but I might take a look now....). Sadly I don't know what happened to the pram....shame, cos it would look good planted up in my garden (not sure where I'd put it though...Lol)

Oh Di what a great photo, we are on Ancestry as my wife and her brother are well into genealogy and they have gone back several gen's, it is very interesting but it can also be very very frustrating too, I leave it to Gill she can work it better than I can, I just do the secretarial work (coz' I'm the better'er speller) and editing the photo's.

Ancestry is a very helpful site, I have gotten a lot of good info from them.

What a lovely picture Di.......... :)

Aww...thanks guys:) Martha was a lovely woman, I remember her well, even though I was only 8 when she died (and she was a very old lady then....) My grandfather however (the baby in the pic) died years before I was born....the family owned a local tannery, and he fell backwards into the tanning pit and met an untimely death!!

Wow, you are so lucky to have photos of family members from days gone by!! I just have mental pics of them from this time. Brilliant, also, that you're keeping her plants going! :-))

Thanks David :) It is a very special photo, and she really was the person who inspired me "to garden". Wonder what she'd make of being on the internet, 107 years after having her photo taken....? Lol

Or.....even finding her on it, lol!!! England is not so organised (not meant to sound at all "bad", btw), but here, we can trace anyone and everyone - birth, marriage death certs, war service records,local church records, etc., back to the 1500s, etc, all on one website. I even have discs of such info which I can use to do genealogical research within our County!!! Amazing! Also, with all the local newspapers copied onto microfilm, found ancestors winning prizes in local shows for having the biggest cabbages (how convenient, for our current garden theme!)
Anyway, was great to have another trip through your garden, but didn't find the Snakeshead Iris. :-))

David i am trying to find someone from Linwood, could you tell me the name of the best website to look on , thanks