Susan, the fairy of the compost heap
Another one from July 1957, and I'm sure my aunt will love me dearly for posting this one.
Apparently she's currently recovering from Scarlet Fever - get well soon!...
Landing the Catch, Whitby
This was taken in July 1957, but something about the way they look makes it look way older than that....
Hill Crest, Cottingham
My father at home in Cottingham in July 1957.
I see he's looking at "The Family Of Man" - a hugely important photography exhibition, first shown at MOMA in New York in 1955 - see the Wikipedia entry....
"The Spread"
December 1957 at Arborfield, and what is presumably the Barracks' formal Christmas dinner - is Barracks the right term? It looks quite an interesting spread, although there's always you don't know how much of it is something you might associate with 1950's military cuisine shaped and dressed up as something nice......
Skiffle Group
August 1957, and some sort of street fair in Soho, with a skiffle group playing in the street - you can tell it's skiffle because someone is playing a tea chest.
Even if you wanted one and could afford one, you weren't allowed to use a proper bass - it had to be the piece of string attached to a tea chest. It's in the rules of the International Skiffle Federation - look it up if you don't believe me....
National Service
And now we get to one bit that I was quite looking forward to seeing - photos from my dad's time in National Service. This is early 1957, so probably early on in basic training.
Not really too much that I can say about these, not knowing anything about it, but I think they are really interesting pictures - it's very obvious that it's not modern.
This one is captioned "Murray, extinguished"
This is from a bit later, and is simply titled "Ron reading comic". I'm sure a military expert out there would be able to identify the beret badge.
There are more photos from National Service, and there is one film labelled "Pubs with the Wrens", which sounds mildly interesting!...