It’s been awhile since I had a look through the old family photo album, and as you know I like to show you my favourite pictures from time to time, and this is just one of them …
… It shows my mother (right) and … 
… Well that is the question … 
Do you ever look at family photographs and wonder who the other people are who appear in them ?
I don’t just mean the people in the background on the beach or beside you at the fair. I mean those who must have meant something to your relatives as they posed beside them in formal portraits or are included in ‘family’ groups.
I wonder who this unhappy looking young woman was ?
This picture was probably taken soon after World War I, so could the girl in black be mourning the loss of a loved one, or could it be that she and my mother were just obeying the photographer’s instructions not to smile ? Probably the latter as most people looked bloody miserable in the photographs from that era.
To me she has the air about her of an ‘Eliza Doolittle’. I wonder if she ever met …
… ‘er ‘enery ‘iggins ? 
