Glad I'm not an apple.  Emma, field north of Tisbury, waiting for a steam excursion. 1988

Trivia: Global warming new?  A group of other guys took their gear just over the next hill for a 'better' shot to include the bend and the station - and got drenched. Here it stayed sunny all day!

I took ages setting up my outdoor studio - basically a lot of chunks of fibre-board from my never completed bedroom railway, and iffy curtaining - and forgot about the background that in the event was formed by mum's washing and the lounge and sitting room curtains! I remember that the arrangement was a system of reflectors I must have read about - didn't work! 1964 I think. Sell on ebay as art now. Had three or four guitars - not sure this was one of them. Mrs. Lowry, next door, appears to be still alive (the washing); I remember entering her house by emergency request, with cousin Donny, to sadly find Mrs Lowry dead on the couch.

Halina 35x 45mm triplet, FP3

Trivia: The monkey was a gift from Ian (Powell) from one of his trips back from Hong Kong or Singapore when still in the services years before; I remember there was a plastic submarine too!

Auntie Beatie, lifeguard, free-spirit, landlady. Dining room, 134 Zetland St., Southport 1963.

Trivia: Audrey Hepburn had a coat with similar buttons (Breakfast at Tiffany's, should you be wondering!).

Andrew and sister Joan, on route to an event for my mother's charity. 134 Zetland St. 1968

Preston Station 1964. Andrew and Alan on day out by train (two months before the line closed).                                                      Halina 35x 45mm triplet FP3

Trivia: In the background is the Park Hotel (background tower) once connected to the platforms by portico and footbridge (just visible between the locos dome/water column and right pic edge). The council purchased the whole site for offices, and added, in '67, a multi-story car park that was since demolished in connection with the reversion to the building's original purpose. 

The way we dressed for church and college, Trinity Church Technical College Carol Service Dec 1965

Trivia: Left to right: Taylor (half hidden), Simms (front row) who's mother granted use of her basement for a 'club'(!), Mrs. Hollis (rear) great advanced maths teacher, Mc Someone (tall with Everly bros boufonne) , Thomas head boy, Maloney (front right) son of a draughtsman, Mr Crossley (hat) Chemistry, who when demonstrating the use of a pippette appeared to be about to suck his ears into his head, and far right, Hamilton, son of a teacher.

Jim and turkey, Zetland St. Christmas 1964

Trivia: The sun is shining (yes, global warming or not, Christmases in the 60s didn't always have snow). The drawered worktop/cupboard came from Auntie Beatie, and is the origin of the joke about the furniture moving from house to house. There's a classic mixing bowl (now at eye-watering price on ebay) - the fridge (£5, streuth, imagine paying equivalent £150 for a 2nd hand fridge now) came from somewhere Toni worked in Grange Rd (the Redfords). Different times. The liquor bottle on the shelf had a significance for my mother that escapes me now. My dad, as usual, turned out in smart suit, was probably working or about to, Christmas day.