Friday 1 February 2013

Ah... to be young and have a Lambretta!

Peter and I were rummaging through some old stuff, looking for old birth certificates - Peter is hellbent on finding his ancestors - and we came across this photo.

Peter was only seventeen, and as you can see, he was always a short little fella. Ha ha! Already 6'3"!


We managed to go back to 1845, when Peter's great-grandfather was born. The birth certificate is in a very sorry state but the names and dates are still legible. We also found loads of photos, among them this one of Peter's grandfather Rupert (born in 1869) which was taken around 1910/1915. I can see similarities between the two of them, especially now that Peter is older.


The woman in the next photo is Elizabeth, Rupert's mother, born around 1847.


Doesn't she look a bit like Alex Kingston?


It's very interesting to go down memory lane and unearth such old photographs, taken more than a hundred years ago!