Orang Utan
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YOU are sooo middle class, Tarquin
Photos of Ancestors
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YOU are sooo middle class, Tarquin
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I'll try and dig out the photo I think my dad has of my not-sure-how-many-greats-grandfather Chief Daniel Conrad Taiwo, who was born in 1781 and died in 1901. 
I haven't seen it for years but I recall a picture apparently take when he was 100, wearing a Stetson and a poncho, and looking rather imposing.
I haven't seen it for years but I recall a picture apparently take when he was 100, wearing a Stetson and a poncho, and looking rather imposing.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
- Fantastic! I'd love to see this...I'll try and dig out the photo I think my dad has of my not-sure-how-many-greats-grandfather Chief Daniel Conrad Taiwo, who was born in 1781 and died in 1901.
I haven't seen it for years but I recall a picture apparently take when he was 100, wearing a Stetson and a poncho, and looking rather imposing.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Hehe, yeah- making up for lost time, I guess: Life as a servant maid on the farms all her youth wore her out a lot, but didn't crush her spirit- In the 1920's and 30's she must've been well into her forties (as she was old enough to remember the countdown to 1900 on NYE, and was in her early teens already then), but still knew how to enjoy life and have fun, make the most of what she had- A thing she passed on to others, I know...
With the kids on the worker's college ca. 1930's she staged a play, 'Life In The Year 2000'
D), chronicling all the 'wondrous and amazing adventures' of the lucky populace in the year 2000... Grainy pics show them dressed up in vaguely shiny silver fabrics, one unlucky 'robot' fella all covered in tin foil(?) with a saucepan on his head cool*, and gran tells me it featured a 'Space Ballet', in which the enthusiastic ensemble revealed the complex mode of futuristic dancing fashions, complete with 'machine music' made by her husband clacking on two outranged typewriters and a rattling of metal sheets... I'd so liked to be there! (* since 'robots' or SF hadn't yet entered the public consciousness via american pulps and popular culture, i reckon their concept of 'robots' owed more to the Verne novels and Russian futurism than any sort of miraculous prescient sixth sense...)
ricbake
working out how
That man sitting down is rather handsomealthough he has that foppish public schoolboy look about him
You're soooooooooooooooo lucky to have all these pictures.
Who's this one?
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8T_1OUnsiwQ/R105q-McLDI/AAAAAAAACEg/yENOYdQ4H5c/s576/Ernest Baker.jpg
This is my great Grand father Ernest Henry Baker - he was the taylor's son who married the draper's daughter. Bit of a drinker, fell on the tracks at Bank station in 1917 - lost his arm and died of infection.
ricbake
working out how
and this?
Great Aunty Phylis
ricbake
working out how
you have a very handsome family ricbake
Thank you Minnie, that last one is my Dad's Mum Eleanor, that picture was taken in Ceylon about 1930.
This Is My Grandfather Herbert Hollander. The first Jewish member of a UK special forces group (L det SAS) and then the SIG who were the inspiration for 'inglorious bastereds'.He was an East End boxer and though commissioned his Jewishness stopped him from being promoted beyond Captain. He conducted assassinations of Nazi Officers in North Africa and 'enhanced interrogations' his most notable being Joseph Kramer the Commandant of Belsen Concentration camp. After the War he refused to become a brigadier in the Israeli Defence force as he thought the whole project a waste of time. he Retired to Surrey.
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I'd forgotten about this thread! I've since read something (can't find where/what now) that leads me to doubt his reportedly extraordinary longevity. Not surprising as it would have been very long, but it was one of those things that you're fed as a child that you accept without thinking. Still haven't found the pic but here is his monument, in Lagos, Nigeria.I'll try and dig out the photo I think my dad has of my not-sure-how-many-greats-grandfather Chief Daniel Conrad Taiwo, who was born in 1781 and died in 1901.
I haven't seen it for years but I recall a picture apparently take when he was 100, wearing a Stetson and a poncho, and looking rather imposing.
From this page.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Wow. But I've just found this unreferenced Wikipedia stub that has the same dates I was told. Wasn't created by me! And wasn't there last time I looked. Curiouser...
Taiwo Olowo - Wikipedia
e2a: page created in November this year. That's... odd.
Taiwo Olowo - Wikipedia
e2a: page created in November this year. That's... odd.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Pls recalculateAnd indeed, that quote up there ^ Why would you come to town as an apprentice basket-maker at the age of 61?
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Me and mental arithmetic had a fight and I lost
But yes, even less likely at 67!
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Career change no doubtMe and mental arithmetic had a fight and I lost
But yes, even less likely at 67!
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
I'm wondering if someone was researching him but couldn't find the dates of his birth and then found this thread and used the dates I posted
Much in the same way that my best friend, who is French, once suggested cooking us an omelette for breakfast, only she pronounced it 'om-uh-lette'.
Me: Is that how it's pronounced in French?
Her: No. It's pronounced 'om-let' in French.
Me: Then why are you saying 'om-uh-lette'?
Her: Because that's how it's pronounced in English!
Me: No it's not! It's pronounced 'om-let' in English!
And it turned out that she'd heard an English friend saying 'om-uh-lette' years ago and thought that must be how it's said here. But we also guessed that he might have said it like that as he thought that's how she would say it. And also that many people subsequently would have heard her, a French person, saying it that way, and would have assumed it was correct
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Hmmm. Better picture of the monument. I hadn't noticed before that it says those same dates on the plaque.
Walking Tour of Lagos Island
He was "Full of age"
Walking Tour of Lagos Island
He was "Full of age"
Idaho
continuity character
Percival is top left on this picture. In the middle, the girl grew into a very funny chain smoking old lady who died in her 90s about 20 years ago. We always called her aunty daisy. It was only after she died that I found out that she was my grandmothers aunty!
The Dixons were a moderately respectable Newcastle family. I think they had a shop.
The Dixons were a moderately respectable Newcastle family. I think they had a shop.
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meh
nothing of mine befoe 1950-they were poor working class and no records. Mrs NBE however has pics of here lot at the run of the 20th C onwards wit their nannies, some in Raj india and a handful with some seriously big cars and motorbikes pre ww2- will load one or two upto see if i can get an ID on the cars .They did own a steel mill in Sheffield IIRC. I married above my station but the £££££ was well gone by the time i came onto the scene
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
My mum's got a big album of old family photos, and a couple of christmases ago I took a scanner up to hers, scanned them all and got her to describe each one as best she knew. They were all jumbled up, but after doing them all, I noticed one lot had been done as a set. They're of my great-grandfather (the old dood smoking the pipe) and all of his children (my grandpa is the boy in these photos, the girl is one of his sisters). There's one taken for each of the family (I'm just incuding three here), they're all in their sunday best, and all against the same background in what was probably their back garden. Probably taken around 1920 or so. I love them not just for being photos of ancestors, but because they tell a story of likely borrowing a camera from someone and doing a family photoshoot of each member of the family, all in their best attire, all at the same time.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I like how great grandad poses with pipe and newspaper, presumably because he thinks it shows him in a better light than just standing there, like the others. The shadows are the same, so the photos are taken one after the other, but he's taken a chair, pipe and newspaper. And then taken them away again.
Having a photo doesn't mean you were wealthy by any stretch of the imagination
My dad's dad, the one with his finger in his ear in the 20s, dock family from East London, had next to nothing, I have other photos of them.
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Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
I like how great grandad poses with pipe and newspaper, presumably because he thinks it shows him in a better light than just standing there, like the others. The shadows are the same, so the photos are taken one after the other, but he's taken a chair, pipe and newspaper. And then taken them away again.
Totally! He was the town's bespoke tailor apparently, so quite well to do, and would have wanted to have been seen as a gentleman of some standing. What amuses me also about it is that looks like their dustbin in the background of each photo, which he's not taken away for his better quality photo, creating an odd juxtaposition.
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