Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: Hazel Gregory

Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SHIP OUT! I hope to start posting regularly again in a few weeks. I've missed being here - and the time to post! My mother's school trip. She is at the ten o' clock position on the left, holding her curled up leg. My grandfather almost didn't let her go. He said the price was ridiculous. (I think it was 7 pounds for ten days at a hostel including train fare.) It wasn't that he couldn't afford it - he just dug his heels in. My mother's older sister shamed him by announcing that she would pay for it if he didn't, so he relented. My mother is eleven almost twelve, though she looks older in all of the photos here. These are all Leyton (London) girls. My mom added a note on the back: Remembering 29 years later from left to right. (I've put the names she listed in "Tags.")

My mother the day before she left for the WRENS. June, 1942. She is 18 years old. Taken in Highgate, London, where she worked. Perhaps I should say that "civvies" means civilian clothes. She wore a uniform for most of the next three years.

My mother, Hazel Gregory, stationed on H.M.S. Defiance in Plymouth.

On leave from the WRENS, she is at her best friend's house.

Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: A FAVORITE VINTAGE PORTRAIT, FORMAL OR INFORMAL On the right: My mother, Hazel Gregory (later Lundbech), and on the left: Her best friend Jill Doe, (later McNair) home on leave from the WRENS. Taken at Jill's house in Thornton Heath, outside of London. They both later emigrated to the States - my mother to Connecticut, and Jill to New Orleans. I treasure this photo and have it framed. I love the bond this shows, their youth, and their sweetness. They were 21. Jill passed away several years ago. My mom is a healthy 97 and lives with us in Vermont.

My parents have been married 58 years today. They went out to Friendly's for a "bang up lunch" to celebrate.

"Taken by Bill" My mother in the WRENS. She is twenty years old. Stationed in Plymouth, Devon.

My mother in Brighton in the back of the tobacconist shop where her boyfriend Jock worked. 1948.

My mother, Hazel Gregory being escorted into church by her father, William Gregory. Emmanuel Parish Church, Leyton, London. February 9, 1952.

My mother in the middle with her cousins - Ivy Gregory on the left and Ivy's sister Evelyn on the right. Taken on holiday in 1939 on the Isle of Wight.

Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "Kiss". My parents, Raymond Lundbech and Hazel Gregory, the summer before they were married. Taken at the Festival of Britain, 1951.