Our Family Album

Our Family Album

1. Early Days

This photo of Brian with his Mum and Dad was his first, taken in an East London studio at 4 months old.

This hand-coloured photo of Brian and his Mum was taken in Albert Gardens, Stepney, London at 6 months old. Yes, he's always been a big boy!

We don't have many pictures from our childhood and teens. If others come to light we'll include them later. Here's what we've got.

Left: leadership potential at 10 years old! Those stripes are surely pointing to a management career.
Middle: Trying to look nautical at Walberswick, Suffolk. The strides are a tad short, aren't they?
Right: First passport photo: why, if it isn't Surfer Joe!

Posing as Doctor Kildare outside Duncan's Pharmacy in Manor Park, London. It's just as well he switched to a computer career - he might have poisoned the entire neighbourhood!

Three early passport photos of Eileen.

2. Together

We'd only just begun; white lace and promises...

Left: eight miles high in Tunisia. Middle and Right: dressed to party!

Left: quite a nice portrait. Right: Spitfire pilot

An early '70s fashion pose outside our first home at Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.

3. Karen Charlotte

Born 6.30am on 22 December 1972, this young lady has dominated our lives ever since. Here are some photos of her earlier days, with Mum and Dad in supporting roles.

Karen has always been an animal lover, especially of horses and cats. The trawl through our 30+ photo albums to produce this condensed on-line album revealed countless visits to zoos and safari parks, plus almost every animal we ever kept.

4. Radio Days

If Brian hadn't worked in IT he would have made a career in broadcasting. For many years he worked as a presenter on hospital radio stations and once co-presented a show aboard the QE2.

Left: at a Radio Stortford disco at the Herts. and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Middle: Radio QE2 - assisting on the passenger request show aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth II.
Right: presenting the Sunday morning request show on Hospital Radio Notley, Black Notley, Essex.

5. Vacations

In 1981 we fulfilled a long-time ambition to cross the Atlantic in style - aboard the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth II.

Left: Karen is presented to Captain Doug Ridley.
Middle: caught by the camera before dinner.
Right: pretzels on 5th Avenue, New York City.

Left: Karen and friends after the hayride.
Middle: on the Grossglockner glacier.
Right: in Salzburg.

The mid-80s frequently saw us on vacation on Florida's Gulf Coast, particularly at our favourite resort, St. Petersburg Beach. These are some of the many of photos from that era, taken at the theme parks.