March 1963, and what I suppose is a tolerably important landmark in several people's lives - including me.
"Do you, John Cristopher Hendy, take..."
Yep, the parents got married. I've never seen any wedding photos, and there are only a few from what appears to be a very small reception at the Green Man pub near Silverstone. I imagine this is because my father was otherwise occupied on the day.
The Green Man is/was a long time favoured haunt of racing drivers for decades. Now, a racing driver's pub near Silverstone - I wonder how that managed to get chosen for the reception? It's got a modern Premier Inn tacked onto it now, although it burned down just before the British Grand Prix this summer.
Mother, on her wedding day...
This is probably a unique photo - my father's mother and my mother's father. He was proper Northampton shoe industry working-class. She wasn't.
The rest of my mother's family - twin brother, mother and younger sister...