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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on May 25, 2010 11:57:41 GMT
I've been scanning some very old photographs. Here's one of my mother aged about nine months coming second in a bonny baby contest in 1937. Fascinating photo...
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Post by Weyland on May 25, 2010 12:49:06 GMT
It certainly is, Chris. I've taken the liberty of getting rid of the blemishes . . .
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Post by everso on May 25, 2010 12:58:16 GMT
Judging by the fashions I'd say your mum must have been born around 1935?
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Post by trubble on May 25, 2010 14:11:47 GMT
I've been scanning some very old photographs. Here's one of my mother aged about nine months coming second in a bonny baby contest in 1937. Fascinating photo... That's a wonderful photo, Chris. Your grandma looks suitably chilled and playful about the whole affair. But 4th place mum looks as if she's blaming her husband's side of the family for the loss; 3rd place mum blatantly thinks it must have been a fix and - like mother, like child - the baby's surely saying 'let us leave here now mother, they clearly do not appreciate talent when they see it' ; and first place mum sooooo has that look of 'I knew it! I feckin well knew it'.
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Post by everso on May 25, 2010 14:46:21 GMT
3rd place mum has a look of Charles Hawtrey about her.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 25, 2010 17:51:51 GMT
3rd place mum has a look of Charles Hawtrey about her. LOL, that is exactly what I was thinking! ;D Cool vintage pic anyways, Chris...happy travels!. AH
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Post by Weyland on May 25, 2010 18:32:26 GMT
LOL, that is exactly what I was thinking! ... AH Yes. The comments are all spot on. But somebody has to say it -- and I've had a Weizenbier so it might as well be me -- none of the little tinkers are exactly bonny. Be honest.
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Post by everso on May 25, 2010 18:55:46 GMT
LOL, that is exactly what I was thinking! ... AH Yes. The comments are all spot on. But somebody has to say it -- and I've had a Weizenbier so it might as well be me -- none of the little tinkers are exactly bonny. Be honest. Ah, but we ALL believe our baby is the best looking. I remember when my daughter (9lb.10oz.) was born. The biggest and most beautiful baby on the ward. All the others looked just like monkeys. In fact one girl I was friendly with tried to convince us that people used to stop and congratulate her on how good looking her monkey was. Pah! it was only a five-pounder for christ sake. And it had a lot of hair.
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Post by everso on May 25, 2010 18:59:09 GMT
And another thing. That Charles Hawtrey look-alike was probably only in her twenties.
Man, I'm glad I wasn't around in the 1930s. Those hats didn't do women any favours. Nor did the specs.
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Post by alanseago on May 25, 2010 19:34:24 GMT
'Those hats didn't do women any favours'. There were plenty of babies on show!
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Post by revisedartlily on May 25, 2010 22:17:51 GMT
Lovely lovely photo!!! I get all warm inside looking at stuff like that and get this sort of urge to write a little essay about it. A friend of mine was telling me that her great great great or something, grandfather, was actually a Baron in Britain before coming to Aus in 1890. She said they had gone to Ireland as they lost all their money and then decided to try to make a new life here. The idea intrigued me. I wrote her a story and fleshed the whole thing out with invented names and scenarios. Shall I post it? I think from what I know about the Irish people who came her in the late 1800s it is fairly realistic. If any of you have ancestors who did this and are a bit curious I can post it or mail it to you.
Lots of love and thanks for the photo. I feel a story about the women coming on......................................would you like it? x x x
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Post by revisedartlily on May 25, 2010 22:23:13 GMT
Oh, and by the way. When I met my previous mother in law she shocked me by telling me that my then-husband had looked like a "little pig"as a baby and she was ashamed to take him out. This was said in front of him. Awful, isnt it!
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Post by housesparrow on May 26, 2010 6:33:56 GMT
Interesting story, Lil. I have an ancestor who came from Ireland to Scotland, but know of none who travelled that far afield
My own mother wanted baby contests banned. She thought it was dreadful that someone should be told that their baby wasn't the best in the world!
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Post by everso on May 26, 2010 9:45:18 GMT
I think a very large proportion of people in the UK have, somewhere in their tree, an ancestor from Ireland. I have two to my knowledge.
Lil, PM me your story. I'm a family history fanatic.
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Post by everso on May 26, 2010 9:46:19 GMT
'Those hats didn't do women any favours'. There were plenty of babies on show! Silly! They didn't wear their hats or their specs in bed!!! ;D
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Post by alanseago on May 26, 2010 10:00:01 GMT
I do and my boots.
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Post by everso on May 26, 2010 10:03:16 GMT
You kinky devil you! ;D I sometimes fall asleep with my specs on if I've been reading - Mr. E. always wakes me up laughing at me. He says I look like Captain Mainwaring.
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Post by Weyland on May 26, 2010 11:25:14 GMT
How common. I prefer the sophisticated black-socks look. Do you like my new designer monogrammed pair?
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Post by revisedartlily on Jun 2, 2010 22:37:33 GMT
There is something very odd about the female bottom in that pic. It looks like her crack has been glued shut....
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