SLIDES 0503-0504
I'm kind of guessing that the first picture was taken on the same day as yesterday's picture, although the car's in the wrong place for it to be "mere moments" later.
In fact... Could those be the very windows that I suspected that the picture was taken from...? Or was the photographer outside? Perhaps sitting on a window sill, or leaning against that impressive brick wall.
Still, despite not having the faintest clue as to where they are, or who those two gentlemen to the left and right actually are, my Father and my Sister both look rather pleased to be wherever they might be.
That outfit of hers does cast certain doubts upon the location of one or two earlier pictures, too...
That outfit of hers does cast certain doubts upon the location of one or two earlier pictures, too...
The second picture is, given the whole general mish-mash of this entire mysterious blue box of slides, I believe, the view from the kitchen window of that house my Grandfather built in the 1950s...
You can see the back hedge and the paddock that they own beyond it, before you see the rolling hills which, I believe, eventually had their unspoilt beauty "ruined" by the eventual expansion (or indeed materialisation) of a place called Hattersley.
Those rolling hills are, incidentally, the route the burglars once took carrying my Grandfather's safe, and, according to family lore, dropping it because it was too heavy for them.
Nice house.
Nice view.
Probably far more impressive a place than I've ever lived.
Curse you, gold yacht...!
The top picture is at the famous Lincolnshire "retreat" we used to visit in Spalding, and the two gentlemen with Dad are Uncle Hedley and his son George (the Gamekeeper) from the local estate of Ledden Hall.
ReplyDeleteNot sure where the bottom photo was taken, but it looks strangely familiar!