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Helpful photo caption!
« on: Sunday 15 April 18 12:50 BST (UK) »
Have just started going through a bag of old family photos belonging to my grandmother.
One shows a woman and collie standing in front of a car, probably late 1920's. Turning it over I found someone had written "wife, dog and car".
A lesson for us all!

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Re: Helpful photo caption!
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 15 April 18 12:56 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately, there are no photos of my Grandfather (my Dad's Father) who died in 1932.

I remember as a child trying to get my Dad to describe to me what he had looked like so I could imagine him.  My Dad seemed to be thinking long and hard - then he looked up and said "Well, he looked like a man." ;D ;D

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Re: Helpful photo caption!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 15 April 18 12:58 BST (UK) »
I have one like that; family group on the beach with Blackpool tower very visible in the background.......turn the photo over....."Blackpool".   ;D
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Re: Helpful photo caption!
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 15 April 18 13:29 BST (UK) »
I have one that says on the back "Me, Mother and next door neighbours"...an address would have helped.
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Re: Helpful photo caption!
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 15 April 18 14:20 BST (UK) »
My Mother in Law in her late   eighties went on holiday with her sister.
M in L had bought a little camera and as soon as they arrived at the seaside B&B she started to take pictures.
 They were hilarious:-The empty chair.
                                The wardrobe door.
                                Nellie was here.
                                 My left foot.
                                 My thumb.
                                 Well there was a seagull there when I picked up the camera .
                                  Nellie`s teeth. ::) ::) ::)
                                   What do you think of the carpet?
We had a good hour of laughter but eventually M inLaw became a bit embarrassed,which was not our intention.
We bought a nice album to put them in because at her age to go on holiday with someone even older was no mean feat in itself,and we admired her and eventually she again saw the funny side.
She had obviously not been aware the camera was taking snaps,well we think that is what happened.
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 15 April 18 14:51 BST (UK) »
Lots of years ago when I had just been given a camera we went on a family holiday to Dartmoor and I took lots of photos whilst we were there.

Came back, had them developed and wrote on the back of them, put them away never to see the light of day until recently.

On the back of the photo of the family group was nothing and on the back of a group of Dartmoor ponies was: Mum, Dad, Granny, Cousin, Sister etc   ;D ;D

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 15 April 18 15:10 BST (UK) »
Pheno--- ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 15 April 18 15:34 BST (UK) »
I have one, taken by my Dad of his aunt, captioned "Taken 2 years ago".


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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 15 April 18 18:10 BST (UK) »
Oh Mike,how helpful(?)  ;D ;D ;D ;D.  Viktoria.