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My Family Album
Here are a few old family photos rescued from albums when my late Mother's house was cleared some years ago.
They were mostly taken by my father and are of various members of the family.
I have published them here for posterity - and better here than hidden in a dusty album!
parent's wedding July 1939
Reception was held at the Marlborough, Shawlands.
My Mother's family
Photo taken in back garden of their Shawlands house.
My parents, 1939
Dad served in the RAF as a radar instructor.
Dad in RAF uniform
Dad was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF
Dad during the war
probably on leave at some time during the war
Gran and Grandpa Selbie
On the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary in 1956
My (maternal) great grandmother
Holding my cousin, Eveline,1941
Mum
in back garden
Aunt Bessie and Uncle Douglas
holding Eveline
Mum and Dad with Granny Dalziel
in back garden of the Menock Road house in Glasgow
My (maternal) grandfather
1953
parents and grandmothers
in back garden
Menock Road house, Glasgow
until 1961
Mum & Dad, Gran & Grandpa Selbie
with cousins Eveline and Melville
Granny Selbie with Eveline and me
1955
Uncle Douglas with Eveline, Melville and me.
their caravan at North Berwick
Wider family group
parents, grand parents and cousins 1955
Melville and me
(1955) at caravan at Nth Berwick
Mum, Gran and Grandpa Selbie on a day out
1955
family day out
Gran and Grandpa Selbie with Aunt Bessie and Eveline and Melville
Austin 7
Dad's car until 1957
Austin A35
Dad's car from 1957
Mum, Gran me
in Granny Selbie's back garden (note the grass bowls)
Grandparents house
Granny Selbie at front door of her house in Shawlands, Glasgow
PS King George V
Dad told me he spent childhood holidays "doon the watter" on paddle steamers (such as this one)
Empire Exhibition
Mum and Dad visited the Empire Exhibition held in 1938 at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow
Arichastlich
Believed to be a family farm in remote Glen Orchy which we visited from time to time until the 1960's
My sporty car
I owned a Triumph Spitfire for a short time, and it was truly an awful car.
Christmas 1959
Me tormenting Eveline at Gran's Christmas get-together Christmas Day 1959
Christmas dinner
Granny Selbie serving the Christmas pud, Christmas Day 1959
Dad, Eveline and Torry the dog
in Granny Selbie's back garden
Aberdeen 1963
We moved to Kepplestone Avenue, Aberdeen in April 1961.
Three generations, 1969
Mum, Granny Selbie and me in 1969
Dad's retirement
Dad retired as Aberdeen Schools' science advisor in 1975
Granny, circa 1975
Granny came to live with us in Aberdeen in 1971 until she died in 1980
Mum and Dad
Taken sometime in the early 1980's
daughters
my two lovely daughters!
Granny Ramage
Alison and Christine with Marion's Mum
cousin Arthur
Arthur Ramage with our Alison, 1983
Marion's parents and family
Arthur (Snr & Jnr), Jessie and Linda Ramage visiting us
Mum with Alison
Mum with Alison, 1983
Mum with Alison age 2
A visit to Aberdeen at Easter 1985
Alison & Christine
Mum with both daughters in 1988
Ralston/Bayne visit
Relations visiting at Dunblane
McNaughton's visit 1987
Christine was just a baby then
Alison and Chrstine
On a visit to Aberdeen Beach in 1998
Mum and Eveline
On a visit to Eveline and Douglas in 1998
Mum and Great GrandDaughter
One of the last photos of Mum taken in 2003 before she passed away in 2005 with her great granddaughter, Courtney.
Ashley Road School, 1961
my primary school class P4
Ashley Road School, 1965
my primary school class P7
Robert Gordon's College, 1966
Class 2D secondary 1966