Norman's Life - His young family and the Grandparents

1946 Seaside photograph with "a worn out mammy" Jean Stafford

1946 Dorothy & Pauline on Beach

1946 Pauline on Beach

The magic of a grandchild, 1945 Dorothy with her grandpa Alfred Stafford

1945 Dorothy with her Grandpa Stafford outside 16 Milton Street

1945 Dorothy 'Back Lane' Milton Street Greenside

1946 Dorothy on a Trike

This photograph taken in the back yard of 16 Milton Street must have been taken around December 1946. I was born on the 1st of April which would make me a very small 8 months old baby. This was the start of one of the harshest winters ever experienced in Britain. 

The start of Winter1946/47 in Back Yard of 16 Milton Street with Grandma Stafford 

This photograph shows two very disconcerted little ones. When I studied it, it clearly showed that it wasn't taken by anyone these two little ones knew, and we were not happy. I was informed that at this time,1947, itinerant photographers used to knock on doors offering to take photographs, this is what happened here.

1947 Pauline and Dorothy at the back door of 13 Milton Street