Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: Grimshaw

I am transcribing Ada's 1915 - 1919 diary at www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

I assume this is a basketball team. The men are unknown except for the man on the left in the back row - that's Ernest Illingworh, husband of Ada Grimshaw. www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com (My husband's grandparents.) His family emigrated from Engalnd to Bellows Falls, Vermont about eight miles south of Springfield. I think Ernest is in his early twenties here but they are wearing the Springfield High School "S" so I'm puzzled by that.

Courtship c1900. My husband's maternal grandparents, Ada May Grimshaw and Ernest Illingworth. www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw about 1888 in Perkinsville or Springfield, Vermont. Follow her diary here: www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw abt 1890. Taken in Springfield, Vermont. I believer that they often cut children's hair if they were very ill and wonder if this is why Ada has this very cropped style. I think I remember reading that cutting hair when a child was sick stemmed from a belief that hair "sapped your strength" but in reality it could have been just a practical way to stop the snarl of tangles from a long time lying on a pillow. www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Fred Grimshaw of Springfield or Perkinsville, Vermont about 1894. Ada Grimshaw Illingworth's brother.

Ada Grimshaw (on right) with friends abt 1900. Perkinsville or Springfield, Vermont www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw b1883 in Springfield, Vermont. My husband's maternal grandmother. Follow Ada's diary ( 1915 - 1919) at www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Photo taken of a photo - one of a pair -sold in their original frames. Identified as Grimshaw by Ada Grimshaw's daughter but further info not known. I'm guessing this is 1870s - 1880s. Anyone who knows about costume have a more informed guess?