Sepia Saturday

Determined to post something sepia today, my blogging has really been suffering lately from work /family and other demands..... for the past week I've been on jury service which has been interesting a more than a little surreal - an insight into another world.



And heres another world - the world of my great Uncle Stan, with his brother Roy (who died in the 2nd world war) and various dashing daring friends of the 1920's.

This picture above is Roy, Hedda (I think?) and Stan on the right.


Hedda again, possibly on the left? and Stan is in the middle, Roy on the end with the bottle in his pocket.


and two young ladies, very shockingly attired.....

Sepia Stan Part 2

Two weeks ago I posted a photo of my great-uncle Stan in his Home Guards uniform and promised more to come....

..... so here is a little bit more.

I don't know much about Uncle Stan's family. He married my father's Aunt, and we saw a lot of them but I have no memories of seeing or meeting any of his own family. However we have quite a few photos of them.

This is his mother as a child, with her parents and nurse. I guess they were fairly well off.


Mabel Nellie Boswell, I don't know her date of birth.


Here Mabel is, all grown up and with her husband,

Arthur Cornelius Woodruff, born 21st November 1878.

And this is Uncle Stan - back right - his mother front left, and to the front right is his brother Ray who died in WW2.




Stan was born in August, 1906.
I thought this was the earliest photo I have of Stan, in his choir boy robes...


...but, though this photo is labelled (by my father) "unknown", I think that Stan is here, middle row 2nd from the left. What do you think? or maybe it is Ray.