Tag Archives: February Collage Photo Festival

This has to be one of my very favourite photographs. It is a photograph of  my Grandfather, George Butcher. This was taken around 1940, so he was aged 32. He had only married the previous November. At the outbreak of … Continue reading →

Today’s photo was taken in around 1971 or so. I am obviously on the left of the photo and the lad on the right is my Cousin Paul, who was the Grandson of my Grandmother’s sister Elsie. This photo was … Continue reading →

Today’s photograph is of my Grandmother’s parents. John Matthews and Mary Elizabeth, nee Elstone. I mentioned them earlier in the challenge; as it was their grave I talked about on day 4. They both died in the 1930’s, John in … Continue reading →

Today’s picture is of my Great Grandmother, Annie Prudence Butcher nee Harris. This was taken in 1953 and was the photograph she used in her Christmas card for that year. It was obviously taken in the summer in her garden … Continue reading →

Today’s photograph is of my Grandfather’s first Cousin. William James West was born in Aldershot Hampshire in 1898, the son of William Arthur West, a military man and, Emma Jane Ellis (Harris). I had always known that my Grandfather’s first … Continue reading →

Today’s photograph is the grave of my Great Grandparents, which were my Grandmother’s parents. The location of this is at The Mount Cemetery at Guildford Surrey. My Great Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Matthews, nee Elstone purchased the plot for her husband, … Continue reading →

This photograph is of my Grandmother and came to me after she had passed away. It was one of three photos that  was posted to me from my Cousin who thought I might like them. She was quite right! I … Continue reading →

Today’s photograph is one of my favourites. This is an early one of my Mum, taken around 1951, which dates from her pre-polio days. I love the way she is standing, the pose, holding the dress. It is simply so … Continue reading →

We kick off of a month long visit through our family photos. Over the next 28 days you will see in detail the photographs that were in the collage I created and appeared in yesterday’s post. This first photograph is … Continue reading →

As you might have seen yesterday, I created this collage for February Photo Collage Festival. When the conversation first came about over at Family History Across the Seas there was a debate of how the collage was created. On the day … Continue reading →