The palest ink is better than the best memory – Chinese Proverb
Years ago, I found myself in a shop, looking through a box of old photographs. The people staring back at me surely had stories to tell but the photos told me nothing, other than these people had once lived and I decided to do what I could to record my own family history to ensure it too did not end up the same way.
- Mum and dad
- Pam and Dick (aunt and uncle)
- Louis Bowers Abram and Delia Eileen Clarke (grandparents)
- Frederick Charles William Payne and Ellen Brooker (grandparents)
Mum’s family
- Eleanor, Rhoda, Elizabeth and Ann
- Charles Payne (my great great grandfather)
- David Brooker and Ellen Kefford (great grandparents)
- George Brooker and Mary Ann Darts (great great grandparents)
Dad’s family
- The Abram family
- The Bowers family
- The Clarke family
- The Shortland family
- The Faber family
- The Thompson, Munns and Peach families
Other stories
Further information
If like me you love old photographs and have photos you would like to learn more about too, visit the National Archives and OpenLearn websites below.
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