Family Tree Frog

The focus of Sepia Saturday this week is prams - or perambulators as they were once known.   I have shown pictures of prams before on my blog.   This one only a couple of weeks ago ....my mother is in the pram. This one of my mother with her doll's pram was posted six years ago. This one of her cousin's son Doug in a pram (and what a very smart pram it is) five years ago. If you look carefully at the photo of Gladys and Cecil Maloney in this photo posted a couple of years ago , you can see another pram So it was a real challenge to find a new photo...but here it is! Me and my doll's pram which I suspect we still have somewhere in the attic. My grandmother brought back this dress for me from Hawaii however the photo was taken in Edinburgh Scotland.  Gee I loved that pram.  It took a lot of beating.   I dug up a couple more recent photos of my children. Me and Bel in her pram - actually I do...

Well this week's theme is quite easy for me to match in terms of family photos.  I suspect some of you may have seen this one before but I saw it with new eyes this morning realising perhaps for the first time that my maternal grandfather, Thomas McLoughlin,  was sitting on a wicker chair. Other family photos featuring wicker furniture are from the paternal side of the family. This is, I suspect, a photo of a photo but it is much loved.  It features my two Aunts and my Uncle.  I only knew my elder Aunt Hazel on the left. My Aunt Trixie (the baby in the chair) died when very young.  That's Uncle Ted on the right and he died well before I was born. This is their mother, my grandmother, Ethel, sitting at I strongly suspect a wicker table.  I also suspect that she would have embroidered that tablecloth.  I have a few of her tablecloths but I don't think that particular one.  I have posted this before so I really needed to fi...