Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: London

Some of it terrible, most of it happy.

HFF friends! A "Stately Gardens of Walthamstow" shot. I'm holding my unimaginatively named, but well loved "black dolly."

It wouldn't be the last time they saw this pained expression. : ) Leyton, London April 1954

The youngest son of Robert William Major and Millicent Colchester. My great grandmother, Jane Major, was Robert's sister. This is a photo of him marrying Emma Morris.

1956

Looking pained. I have the faintest memory of not wanting to sit there and having to wait until the picture was taken.

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 mother's sister taken somewhere in London - it doesn't look like Seymour Road in Leyton where they lived. Her father was still away at war.

My Nana and Grandad at their flat - 79 Seymour Road, Leyton. First of a new set I'm going to do on Seymour Road. My mother says my Grandad never liked this picture. It's one of the few we have where he's not dressed up with a suit and waistcoat. I think it's a wonderful portrait of them. It's in a small frame on m desk.

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

My grandfather's sister. Polly married Ted Marnham who had one eye and went to jail for robbing the mail. She had two children -Ted, who died in WW2 and a daughter May.

My mother about age 17 - 1941.

Arthur about 1924. Taken on Seymour Road in Leyton, London. My mother's brother born in 1920. The railings on top of the walls were taken down and the iron used in WW2.

Arthur holding one of the dogs they always had. In the back garden of 79 Seymour Road, Leyton, London. My mother, Hazel, with her step mother and brother.

Arthur George Gregory. Taken when he was about 10 or 11 which would make this about 1930 or 1931. This was a school picture I believe.

Ivy and Evelyn Gregory. Their parents were Len Gregory and Ivy ? - my mother's cousins. Ivy, the oldest sister was my mother's bridesmaid.

One of my favorite found pictures. I got this in a second hand shop in Highams Park, London in 1974. Brought forward (late) for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "favorite photos." Even though this is an English family (I assume) it always reminded me of the American Jewish family from the Lower East Side in the children's book All-of -a -Kind Family by Sydney Taylor - a book I loved as a kid.