Category: Photos
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The electrical connection
Welsh bright sparks
Welsh bright sparks One of the most interesting photographs in the collection held by cousin Islwyn is this one of the electrical shop in Llanelli. Known to Islwyn as Thomas Brothers, that doesn’t appear to be the business name in 1937 (19th January to be precise). The white-coated person is Bill Walters, husband of great aunt Miriam Watkins. Bill Walters outside Llanelli electrical shop, January 1937 As very few of the old photos are dated (many don’t have any label), perhaps there is something significant about » »
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The Beasor connection
A fascinating start to 2012 and the addition of a Beasor family page to Cutlock & Co. A cousin to my nephews uploaded some old Beasor photos to Ancestry.co.uk following a Christmas visit to his (and their) gran. Almost as soon as I created a link to these on my Ancestry tree, my dad’s second cousin Muriel spotted them and realised she knew this Beasor family. Rear row: on left, Olive and John Long, May Segain. Next row: Alan and Brenda Crace, ?, Ethel Beasor (with » »
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Feeling Bushed
Exploring Bush Houses, Clydach Vale
Exploring Bush Houses, Clydach Vale It is a couple of years since I first stumbled across Bush Houses as the place where my coal mining ancestors lived on moving to the Welsh valleys. I can still remember the confusion of trying to work out quite where Bush Houses was (were?). From the 1891 census for the Osborne family I could track down the ‘hamlet’ of Clydach, recorded here as part of Ystradfodwg parish in the Rhondda. But where was ‘Bush’ – seemingly having no road name? » »
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Wedding fashions through family photos
There are of course a number of wedding photographs in the family collection, dating back over a hundred years. I thought it might be interesting to look at the differences, from changing fashions and fortunes. The variation is no doubt as much as about what they could afford as personal taste and the conventions of the times. Summer 1905, Norwich, Norfolk Eric Laddiman and Eliza Neal are fifth and sixth from the left back row. The fact that this is their wedding is by deduction » »
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Upping the visual content
An update on new (and not so new) scans of family photos added to pages across the Cutlock and Co site: Watkins family: Len, Mary and children (two photos); Len’s siblings later in life. View of colliery (and houses) near Tonypandy. Norwich – looking along Guernsey Road and Magdalen Street. Myhills family photo added to Watts page. Fred and Dora’s wedding snap on Cullum/Cutlock page. Laura Neal’s portrait (extract from Neal family photo) on ‘Death of Laura Curtis‘ page. » »
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Great photo, shame about the documentation
Continuing the exploration of the large batch of old family snaps digitised last week, here’s one of the more intriguing. It’s a wonderful action shot, taken by that prolific photographer ‘person unknown’. Fred and Dora’s wedding 25 Sept 1926 Labelled ‘Fred and Dora’s wedding September 25 1926’, the event is obvious and the most prominent figure pictured is also easy to identify as grandfather Sydney Howes. The occasion: Frederick Hinton Cullum, son of William John Cullum and Sarah Neve, marrying Dora Lillian Briselden – I had » »