Comments on: A New Home For Old Photographs

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:25:56 +0000

Superb, so much to like. The men in their white shirts and ties at Christmas, the working class Dad and his kid in Clapham, the parties etc. Life is beautiful. Family and friends are everything. Best of from NZ.

By: Daphne Grinberg

Daphne Grinberg — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:57:48 +0000

Found this site while looking for information on Oscar Baumgart, who took a photograph of my grandmother somewhere around 1910-1915 – there is no date on it. SO IMPORTANT to keep family photos and to show them to our children and grandchildren, and talk about the family. My husband was Latvian, and when he died my son found, at the back of a cupboard, a box of photos of his family, none of them named, we have no idea who they are. So sad.

By: Elizabeth cornwell

Elizabeth cornwell — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:54:41 +0000

What a lovely picture of your Mum.I have a huge collection of family photos,some of them taken in Germany in1949 when my father was stationed there.I am sure that across the country there is a huge archive of social history just waiting to be shown!Would be interesting if some could be correlated & available to view.

By: Hetty Startup

Hetty Startup — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:41:45 +0000

“I have an album that belonged to my gt grandfather, Horace Ransom, whose father Henry was a Mourning Draper in Upper Street, Islington. Sadly there are several photographs in the album of forgotten friends and relatives that I am never likely to name. Perhaps there is one of the wonderfully named Fanny Startup who appears in his birthday book! ”

Hmm, Fanny Startup is probably a relative

By: Karen Mardahl

Karen Mardahl — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:26:40 +0000

Brilliant idea. Check out “A Richer Dust: Echoes from an Edwardian Album” by Colin Gordon. The author found such a family album at a flea market and set out to discover who they were. I have a project to scan a box of photos from a flea market in Glasgow and post them on Flickr in the hopes that families will recognise them. They are from around the early 1900s.

By: David Ransom

David Ransom — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:36:17 +0000

There is something magical about photographs, especially old ones. I am one of those people who buy old photos on eBay, but I do have to limit myself. I have themes, like trying to get one photograph from each of the Victorian photography studios in Brighton . . . there were hundreds of photographers at that time! I have an album that belonged to my gt grandfather, Horace Ransom, whose father Henry was a Mourning Draper in Upper Street, Islington. Sadly there are several photographs in the album of forgotten friends and relatives that I am never likely to name. Perhaps there is one of the wonderfully named Fanny Startup who appears in his birthday book! I too have the urge to “save” all the photographs I see. How nice it is that the London Family Photo Archive has been born. And good luck with the Spitalfields Nippers book, another window into the past (who needs Doctor Who?).

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:23:28 +0000

Brilliant idea!

By: Roger Carr

Roger Carr — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:03:19 +0000

Family photographs of my grandparents, out for a Sunday afternoon jaunt in the pony trap with the blind housekeeper – it was either them or the workhouse. My mad aunt again with a pony and trap, out delivering milk and gossip door to door, and Mum and her sisters on a motorbike and sidecar, off into town to a dance. The detailed oil paintings on copper of the clippers that my great grandfather sailed on were all snatched up but I got all the photographs, including a lovely British in India album from 1908. I found it odd that nobody else in the family seemed interested in these potted family biographies.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:23:51 +0000

An interesting idea. We have got thousands of photographs, all cherished and I cannot bear to think of them being binned, but storage……… It is easier now there are digital pictures stored on tiny memory cards, but I still couldn’t just hand ours over to a stranger.
P.S.
Love the photograph of your mother GA.

By: Sarah Vernon

Sarah Vernon — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:21:40 +0000

What an excellent idea.