The four of us.
Harry & Nancy had four children. That’s me with my sister Anne and a long haired chihuahua! I remember that wallpaper! I must be about six years old so that would make it around 1968? We’re standing in the ‘front room’ of 35 The Ginnel, Port Sunlight. The house belonged to Lever Brothers, which is where my Dad worked, and that house remained in the family until just last year (2012) when Mum moved into a nursing home. Mum lived in The Ginnel for nearly sixty years I think, I will have to check. Mum & Dad remained tenants the whole time they lived there, turning down the opportunity to buy it. The house now belongs to the Port Sunlight Village Trust and has new tenants in now. Very strange to think of another family living in our house!
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| Dave, Anne & Doggie! |
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| Back of above print. |
This is Robert and Keith standing outside The Ginnel. Rob looks to be about three maybe? Keith would be about seven. Must be 1954? The front door has been a few colours over the years, it looks black in this photo. Levers would always paint the outside of the village houses. Am I right in thinking they painted the insides as well, even wallpapering at one time?
35 The Ginnel looks like a grand detached property! It is in fact an end of terrace with just a back yard. Dad built a fish pond in our back yard and stocked it with fish he used to catch from a local angling club, but that's another story! I remember playing out in the 'backs' behind The Ginnel. There used to be allotments there and Mum would send me to buy some vegetables from the old man with braces on his trousers and a black bicycle. What was his name?
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| Robert & Keith. |
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| 35 The Ginnel. |
Was that wallpaper in the front room or the dining room? And is 'Doggie' the same chihuahua as 'Tiny'? Do you remember how Tiny used to go mad when the theme music for Coronation Street would come on the telly and he would then sit on Mum's lap! Did Mum ever take off her apron?!!
ReplyDeleteWould be good to confirm those dates and ages?
That was indeed the front room's wallpaper, and we had to 'share' holding Tiny for the photograph!...but I no longer shared once the camera clicked!
ReplyDeleteI remember Dad would show us a wallpaper swatch and we would help to choose the paper which the decorators from Levers would put up throughout the house.
The man you bought the veg from in the allotments was your Godfather, Mr.McGraph, (not sure of the spelling). Apparently some member of his family had previously lived at 35 The Ginnel, possibly his sister?