HISTORY REUNITED
Projects
I am sure that fellow genealogists agree that sometimes a photograph or a story resonates. You feel a connection,it captures your imagination.
It might be the people in the photograph, the event or the challenge of the 'detective' work . Here are some of my favourite projects.....
Please follow the blog for more challenges and do join the forum to discuss any of these projects, any research help is most welcome!
Sea Rangers-Dartmouth
August 1952
The Crew of M.T.B. 630
In early 2022 , I was browsing a collection of snapshots in my local Brighton flea market, and came across cluster of photographs of a group of ladies with whom I felt an immediate connection. They are clearly having a great time. A generation younger and this would have been me, I just know it.
And there are names on the back, fantastic! ..Maybe I can reconnect these with some of the ladies pictured or their families?
No luck so far but I have shared these with the Sea Rangers Archivist. Following a speculative post on a forum, a maritime researcher contacted The Dartmouth Museum where the originals will be preserved.
Follow the research on this on my Forum pages...
Names featured
Rene Sack (Middlesex)
Iris Pullen (Southend)
Gladys Jefferies (Leeds)
Pam *Paleman (Eastbourne)
Grace *Staley/Stanley (Reading)
Margaret Bassett (Portsmouth)
K.R.
Joyce *Stears (Reading)
Betty Groves (Leeds)
Dorothy Steed (Herts)
Jo Hudson 'Nursing C.O.' (Huddersfield)
Peggy Riley (Essex)
Pam Griffin
* spellings unclear
Amongst the Sea Rangers photographs a lovely earlier photograph ,1940..perhaps some clues to featured lady?
I think the lady on the left is 'KR' with her typewriter. KR also features in the Sea Rangers Photos.
THE ROLL OF HONOUR
Perth Western Mail 1915
Gallipoli Fallen Heroes
In 2015 I was browsing one of my favourite flea markets in Brighton, the appropriately named 'Snooper's Paradise'. If you visit Brighton I highly recommend this North Laines 'junk' emporium. It is easy to spend several hours browsing the cluttered cabinets for every sort of collectible. At the time I wasn't really searching for photographs until this astonishing find....The front page of an Australian newspaper from 1915. 'The Western Mail' featuring photographs of fallen men from the Gallipoli campaign. It is quite touching
that the men in this paper were so far from their families in both time and distance.
