Back on line after the hottest day of the year so far! Too warm to be sitting in front of a laptop that's for sure!
Been rooting through boxes and boxes of photos and found lots of lovely ones. Lorraine, I'm going to be busy, busy, busy scanning this lot!
I forgot to mention it but have you seen the film "Far From the Madding Crowd" (from the novel by Thomas Hardy), the one with Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Terrence Stamp? Great grannie Lydia Townsend nee Smith had a bit-part in the film. If you ever get to watch it (and I recommend you do - (my fave film despite great gran being in it) look out for the part where Fanny Robbin meets Sergeant Troy in the stables and tells him she is going to the workhouse. We see her walking up Gold Hill in Shaftesbury. When she knocks on the door of the workhouse the little slidy window opens and you see a face. Great grannie!!! The door then opens and Fanny is ushered into the workhouse by none other than.....great grannie!!! Fanny Robbin dies (sorry to spoil the plot), and as her coffin leaves the workhouse it is followed by ......great grannie!!!
Even after all these years I never tire of that film and 23 years after she died it is so lovely to see her in the film. She will always be alive in the film which is what I love about it. I also have the letters from John Slessinger (the director) to her, the original film program, the original tickets and photographs of great gran with some of the cast. Priceless!
Vicky