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Submitted by jill on Sun, 2015-06-07 20:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

This photo from the Warren family collection has no legend. It would be the same era as the photo of Veronica Walker's birthday party in the 1930s. The children may be other Broadwood Road children or from one of the schools. The windows of the house aren't the same as those of The Towers and the stonework isn't the same as Quarry Bay School. Is there a clue in the older boy's socks? Are they school uniform socks? The shoes may also help to date the picture. The children have borrowed their parents' pith helmets for the photo.

Hyde-Lay children

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2014-08-01 20:54
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

This photo is labelled "Kathleen Hyde-Lay and her brother." They are presumably the children of Alexander and Betty Hyde-Lay who were killed in error by an allied bomb that hit Bunglalow C in Stanley Camp, as recorded in Barbara Anslow's diary. The cheerful boy, whose name isn't given, appears in a couple of other photos as one of several unidentified passengers in a vintage car, two of whom may be his parents.

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