Alan and Graham: Todlers


Figure 1.-- Here are two photos of us as toddlers. The first shows me at 18 moths in 1932. I am wearing what my mother called my 'summer frock'. It was made by her and she was a very slilled seamstess which I am sure did not appreciateat the time. Unfortunately the elaborate smocking is not very clear. Luckily my sister came the next year on whom my mother could apply her dress-making skills. I think the garment I was wearing is a smock. The second shows us a year later on my brother's 4th birthday in 1933. Put your cursor on the iage to see the second photograph.

We were a very happy family. Graham and I enjoyed a normal middle-class English boyhood. Both are parents were wonderful. As todlers we were mostly with mum. She was a stay at home mum and woinderful with children, including two often rowdy little boys. Here are two photos of us as toddlers. The first shows me at 18 moths in 1932 (figure 1). I am wearing what my mother called my 'summer frock'. It was made by her and she was a very slilled seamstess which I am sure did not appreciateat the time. Unfortunately the elaborate smocking is not very clear. Luckily my sister came the next year on whom my mother could apply her dress-making skills. I think the garment I was wearing is a smock. The second shows us a year later on my brother's 4th birthday in 1933 (figure 1, mouse over).







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