Off to the Nilgiris.
Looking at the bare trees and how well wrapped up we are, I would say this was January, 1967 outside The Ginnel. On the back of the print, there is a Kodak stamp with the date May 1967. I think Dad took this photo just before we set off to India and it would have been printed when we came back in May.
Doesn’t Mum look smart. I can remember snuggling up to Mum many times when she was wearing that coat... I can smell it right now... mint imperials and ciggies!! I used to call it her bingo coat!
In the background is the Bridge Inn (pub & hotel) and Christ Church where Rob & Sue got married in 1972? Is that car Dad’s old Wolseley that used to have a lovely walnut dashboard?
After they got married, Rob & Sue lived in New Ferry (just up the road from Port Sunlight) with Sue’s Dad. I think the road was Winstanley Road? Not long after, they moved to Wales and lived in a cottage in Chirk near Wrexham. They had cats and dogs (Mush the dog was my favourite) and even a goat called Wilameena!? A mini Joville? I remember making a wooden sign for their cottage... the sign read... “The Nilgiris”
Doesn’t Mum look smart. I can remember snuggling up to Mum many times when she was wearing that coat... I can smell it right now... mint imperials and ciggies!! I used to call it her bingo coat!
In the background is the Bridge Inn (pub & hotel) and Christ Church where Rob & Sue got married in 1972? Is that car Dad’s old Wolseley that used to have a lovely walnut dashboard?
After they got married, Rob & Sue lived in New Ferry (just up the road from Port Sunlight) with Sue’s Dad. I think the road was Winstanley Road? Not long after, they moved to Wales and lived in a cottage in Chirk near Wrexham. They had cats and dogs (Mush the dog was my favourite) and even a goat called Wilameena!? A mini Joville? I remember making a wooden sign for their cottage... the sign read... “The Nilgiris”
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| Mum, Anne & Dave |
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| Rob & Sue's Wedding Day, Port Sunlight |
we,ve still got that wooden sign ,Dave...dad was the youngest Arthur in the middle and Les the eldest....
ReplyDeleteThat’s amazing to think you still have that sign Rob... it must be about thirty five years old! I remember making it with water transfer lettering and loads of varnish! I would have got everything from the hardware shop on Brombourgh Road up by The Wiend. I think that shop is now a posh restaurant called Sunlight!
DeleteIn one of his letters, Dad asks Grandma “how is our young Arth?” so I been mistakenly thinking Arthur was the youngest! I’ve found some birth records online (just an entry in a register not certificates) that read:
McCormack John L, 1911, Wirral Cheshire, Aspinall
McCormack Denis A, 1915, Wirral Cheshire, Aspinall
McCormack Harry R 1924, Wirral Cheshire, Aspinall
As Dad was born at the end of 1923 his birth wasn’t registered until 1924. Are these years correct for Arthur & Les? Also interesting to see that they both used their middles names as their first names!