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My Uncle Mick has been busy scanning in negatives with a handy new gadget-thingie.

This is my lovely Nan, my favourite person in the world:  she did many things in her life including being a Cook to the rich and a Nanny to a black baby Princess, taught hersef to play the piano really very well, and  knew about lots of culturey-things like ballet and opera which she often sang despite being a self-confessed commoner and a jellied-eel loving genuine Cockney born within the sound of Bow Bells.

Here she is at her favourite place, Beer.  That is a cup of tea she is drinking, her favourite drink - she must have got through millions.  She did live to 89 so it is obviously good for you.




She always spoke of Beer as if it were the most wonderful beach paradise in all the world.  I was rather disappointed when I went there as an adult - the beach is very stony as you can see from my Dad's face:





This is my sweet Mumsy, who died in 2002   at Clovelly with Nan, and my elder sister Valerie who died when she was three:




And this is a small merry in a ballet tutu, though I have no memory of ever doing ballet and suspect I showed Little Promise.

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Thanks for sharing these, Merry.   I love old photos.   They take you back to a time remembered, quite often with a little tint in the glasses, but there is rarely an old photo that doesn't raise some form of a smile, even if there is a tinge of sadness mixed in.

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Thank you for letting us see some of your family album! They're great pictures - love the expression on your dad's face - and must be so full of memories ...

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Those old negatives have held up well, haven't they?
I don't recall ever going to Beer, but Dorset has some superb coasts. I went to Durlston Country Park last year, a wonderful place for wildlife.

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there is rarely an old photo that doesn't raise some form of a smile, even if there is a tinge of sadness mixed in.

Absolutely!  So sad, that my family is all under me now - no-one above - except my rather lovely Uncle Mick and his family  

Thanks all for nice comments     Do you know I'm not even sure where  Beer is now, I must look it up on Google Earth.

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Oh, these are wonderful! Just brimming with life. Little ballerina Merry is darling.

Now I want to visit Beer on my next trip to GREAT Britain.

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Beer is part of England's Jurassic Coast, very much worth a visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer,_Devon

I shall go in search of airfare bargains at once!

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Ohh it does look rather lovely and sounds highly interesting.  I did visit Charmouth, also on the Jurassic Coast I see, with small STPD once, I absolutely promised dinosaur-obsessed STPD that we would most likely find a fossil.... we didn't but there was a shop selling some, I think we came home with a couple of ammonites and possibly a trilobite (no doubt fashioned by the locals using plaster of paris and trilobite molds for ze foolish furriners to buy.)

St Ives is very beautiful and interesting, a bit lower down.  And Tintagel of course, home to King Arthur (well not really, but it looks as if it should have been with the ruined castle on the craggy hill, facing the wild sea.)

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I should check my joggers; I thought Beer was in Dorset.  

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I always assumed Devon and Dorset were the same place, alternatively spelled.

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