I've been scanning some of my old black and white photographs. I don't know whether this will work but here's my Dad, Fred, sitting on a Fordson Major tractor with a binder behind. Sitting on the binder is my grandfather, Charlie Wildgoose, and my grandmother Beatrice.
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It works ! Marvellous ...
ReplyDeleteA wonderful old family memory. When was it taken, do you know?
ReplyDeleteI would say it was taken in the 1930s Mitch. I think the 1940s might be too late.
DeleteI think it is more 1940s as it is how I remember it as a child,and I was born 1939,but I could be wrong,It is a lovely picture I wish I had more farming photo's,but I have the memories.Ann
ReplyDeleteYou could be right Ann ... I have a few more farming photos which I will add on here [now I know I can do it].
DeleteWonderful image, Charlie. It must be bittersweet ...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like it Pet. Yes, bittersweet in some ways but I can't change what has happened. If I could I would never have had my children ...
DeleteYou are so clever to figure out how to do this. I was impressed with the vest, jacket and tie on a tractor. People don't even dress that well to go to church anymore. But they probably smell better, with showers and shampoos etc. My father-in-law thought you would get sick if you had more than one bath a season. You took off your longjohns for washing when you heard the crows come back from migrating south, or the ducks/geese.
ReplyDeleteI surprised myself Karyn ~ I didn't know whether it would work. If I had been more confident I would have entitled this 'A flock of Wildgooses' instead of 'Dad, Grandad and Granny ...' !
DeleteI rather assume Dad was posing for this photo and that's why he got dressed up. When he was farming he either wore a battered beret ['berry' we called it] or a battered flat cap ~ both of which had become moulded to the shape of his head. If he was going out then he would always look very smart ... rather like in this photo.