Family Pictures from the 1950s
Album has 25 photographs.
Nick and Peter Wadley.
Norman's Bay is near Pevensey, so the holiday is referred to as Pevensey by some but they stayed actually in Norman's Bay.
Norman's Bay UK 1950
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Sue Emmett
Scanned by PJW, date unclear this is a guess.
Keynsham (Tony and Marjorie's) UK 1954
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Uncle Bill and Aunt Elisabeth
Scanned by PJW, date unclear this is a guess. PJW added: Pretty sure this was taken at 13 Gravel Hill, Addington. No idea when but Pudge could hazard a guess
13 Gravel Hill, Addington UK 1950
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RAF Stores Crew 1951 HQBC
RAF - PJW (back left) Curly Fulford (front left) Bill Warwick (front right) - not sure about the rest, date 1951
RAF High Wycombe - HQ Bomber Command UK 1951
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Lionel
Addington UK 1950
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On the water
Stan Owen doing the work. This was a `sports` afternoon during RAF service
High Wycombe UK 1952
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Grandad Fairlie and Nick
Nick Wadley recalls 'They're wonderful pictures at Fairlie station. [See pictures 1510 and 1511. Ed.] I was there, with Grandad Fairlie [James Fairlie] and my mother [Kate Wadley (Fairlie), Kitty], in 1952. We stayed in Glasgow for a week's holiday while Grandad was judging a carnation show at the Kelvin Halls. We took several trips down the Clyde, I remember going rowing by myself in the rain at Largs. Grandad Fairlie was a tyrant about alcohol (about most things actually). I remember Kitty furtively getting room service to bring us a drink one night, without waking him next door. I've got a photo somewhere, taken sitting on Fairlie station but sadly without the sign, 17-year-old me and Grandad. [This is it. Ed.]'
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'It is Fairlie [Station,] ... we went there specially and kitty took the photo with our old folding vestpocket kodak -- that's why there's light coming in, the leather bellows were wearing out (I've got the carrying case strap round my neck). I remember it well, as the song says. I remember Glasgow Central station too (LMS railways), we were staying at the Station Hotel there. It was the first place I'd been where you could buy tomorrow's papers at midnight, which I did a couple of times - very exciting stuff for me, just out of school. I remember Uncle Bill [Harold Fairlie] took me to his club for lunch, a few weeks before we went. It was the first time I'd drunk Pym's No.1
and he gave me five pounds pocket money, in crisp brown ten-shilling notes. I'd never had so much money before. I remember feeling very grown-up.
I used one of the notes to pay the room service when Kitty [Kate Wadley (Fairlie)] and I had our furtive midnight drinks '
Fairlie railway station UK 1952
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At Copse Avenue
The twins' (Audrey and Sheila) 21st birthday. L to R (standing) Richard Royan, Harold Fairlie, Elizabeth Fairlie, Kate Wadley, Jessie Harries, Leslie Wadley. L to R (sitting) Margaret Royan, James Fairlie, Mary Royan, William Royan, Nettie Wadley
West Wickham, Kent UK 1954
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Bowden Picnic
Nana B and Gramps having a cuppa on one of their days out. Not sure when it was taken but must be after 1956 - will eventually go through Gramps diaries so that I can then tell when they bought that car [Jill Wadley]
Somerset presumably UK 1957
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Shiela Royan
Sheila Royan Thumbnail Only
West Wickham UK 1954
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Audrey Royan
Audrey Royan Thumbnail Only
West Wickham UK 1954
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Kitty Wadley and Susan
Kitty Wadley and granddaughter Susan in Tony and Marjorie's Garden
Keynsham UK 1955
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Grandad Fairlie and Kitty Wadley
Here are a couple of old pictures I've managed to salvage a scan of from old negatives that tony sent me recently. The one of Kitty with Grandad Fairlie I'm pretty sure is one I took in scotland, 1952. The other looks later, maybe 60s, probably Cornwall. I've seen that dress in some other photo somewhere - reminds me of being an art historian all over again. [Nick Wadley]
Possibly Glasgow UK 1952
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Bowdens
Gramps (William Bowden) with Aunt Phyllis (my great aunt) and Uncle Syd (Sid? - my great uncle). Assumed mid 1950s.
The Pilchard Inn UK 1955
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At Kilve in the fifties
Holidays in Kilve were a popular family tradition. I remember going there several times as a child in the sixties. We stayed at the `Hut` which was literally a Nissen Hut owned by the Derricks. They lived two doors up from my grandparents at the top of the road in Keynsham. Also in the picture are Eileen and Charles Phillimore - good friends of my grandparents.
Kilve Somerset UK 1958
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