This is such a good photo. I got it this morning from Therese. It has been seen before but not this quality. We have to get a larger scan and more info and I will post it again so everyone can have a copy. Note the satchel in the foreground. Intriguing, n’est ce pas?
Hard to believe I still wear a beret to this day.
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Jim, can you name the people in the photo?
Hello yes thats Terry in front on left, Jim on right. Evelyn in middle holding Therese, Dor on left
Rita on right. All showing the good looks that were to continue into "maturity"
this was taken by my dad at our front door in Lally Rd. Jim had cut his head and had to have plaster on. It was not macho to be seen with plaster hence the beret for the duration of the healing process...this story from the mouth of Queen Eileen..believe it or believe it not..
see my dads tool case in foreground and the homemade fence with wooden thread spools from all the factories he visited on behalf of Singer machines who would go to that trouble today??
Just for posterity!!! That picture is the wrong way around. The fence with the spools should be on the right side. Am I a nit-picker or what?
No you are not a nit picker Rita. I will turn it around. This scan must have been done from a negative and that happens quite often when you scan a negative.
The scan was photograph from printed negative.,They were all
seperate, guess the person couldnt tell which side was right
Have you turned it around already Jimmy. As far as I'm concerned it's correct. My father loved to take pictures. When he came home from work, he probably saw all of us there, dropped the tool case and ran in to get the old box camera.
Now now girls, behave. The picture is beautiful, no matter which way you look at it, Terrys face is so pouty. and Jim of course has'nt changed, and you girls are gorgeous, lovely to have, I will be saving this one...
See you turned the picture, now my first comment needs to be taken with a pinch of salt
Is this correct now? Should I turn it back?
Yes its correct Jim, thank you
I don't think I have ever seen this photo, at first I did'nt think it was Jim and me, but I guess it is. What I do remember are those jackets Jim and I are wearing, corduroy with zippers, Jim's beret?????? I don't know where that came from but it explains a lot about Jim as an adult.
I past by lally road every day and i think about your house, i used to love going there, i remember the birds in the back yard the cats and above all the larder off the kitchen i thought that was great, full of food,your Mam always had cats. we had to get 2 buses the 23 and 78.
I was into visiting family in a big way when i was young, i went to see aunts and uncles that didn't even know me, mostly on my mams side of the family.
So girls somebody thinks about you all every day.
what a lovely picture, It's great to see u all as children and now you have your own children and grand children.I love to see all the old B&W photos that i can add to my collection.
Who has the original photo or negative of this shot. I would like to get it professionally scanned so a bigger copy can be made from a higher resolution. This is a rare shot. I don't think there is another one like it. If I can get it professionaly done or do it myself we can all have a copy. No need to worry it will be safe in my hands and will be returned . I have just been in touch with the processing place in Seattle and they can do a scan up to 40 mb.
Are'nt you a man who know's how to get thing done.... !! Great stuff. Just been on your food blog. love it. wrote a few comments.
I have the negative Jim, along with a few others. Can post it on to you.
Wonderful Therese.
After my mam's death was clearing out her belongings and came across a box of negatives. Handed the lot over to Therese and she did a minute search and this negative was among them. Lots of them we had never seen . Dont know what happened to the original prints which must have been developed at some stage. Perhaps with four toddlers around we did a job on them.!! Thank God my mom managed to at least save the negatives. My dad loved his old box camera and put it to good use. hence the old collection.
We should get all of them printed. I had never seen the one of Evelyn and Pat. It's great.
Phyllis good that you have happy memories of your aunts and cousins. the "cat thing" continues still. Dor has two, Evelyn has 3,4,5,or however many call for dinner. Therese has / had 1( he did a runner recently) and I have four. Luckily they are all neutered so we are not increasing the unwanted cat population.
Given that it was a box camera these negatives must be large format and not 35 mm strips I imagine.Are they Rita? It is great that they have been kept. A lot of negatives have been lost.
yes jim they were large size negatives not strips. is it not strange that the younger generation probably do not know what we talk about with negatives and prints. Being digital camera users it must be confusing. Ah!! the old days
yes Jim negatives are large single ones, hence the mistake with left to right
Just wondering where i was that day,
i know Ann wasn't born. Mam was 4 months on the way to having Ann when this picture was taken.
Probably left at home.....too troublesome!!!
You were probably taking a well earned nap, Phyllis , were you coming up on two then, the busy time.
She was probably rootin' around the house or tormenting the cats.
I don't think i was allowed in,
According to mam i put all the toilet tissue in the loo and blocked it the last time i was in Lally road!!So it was a no go area for me. I think Jim got the bullet too later on......but our Ter now that was a different matter!!!
It is fun reading all the stories when everyone was young.
I don't remember this photo being taken but I do remember the events leading up to the wearing of the beret during this time. I remember some of them at least.
We were living in Marlboro Street in Dublin and I was standing at the fireplace watching Dad hammer a nail into the wall for a picture over the fire place. The fireplace had a mantle and the mantle was tilted downward a bit. There was an iron on the mantle piece. It was one of the old irons that needed to be heated on the gas ring, very common in those days.
I used to watch Aunt Carmel do the ironing with one of them on some Saturday mornings when I was up at Granny Walsh’s house. She had two irons, one on the gas and the one she was using. When one cooled down she would exchange it for the hot one on the stove. I can still remember the fresh smell of the cotton being ironed. It would have been just brought in from the line and the smell was intoxicating.
Anyway, it was this type of iron that was perched high up on the mantelpiece as I stood there with upturned face watching Dad hammer in this nail for the picture. I see him to this day; arms raised, standing on a chair high above me with the hammer in his hand. I came up to his ankles when he was on that chair.
What I or anybody else did not see was that the vibration of the hammering caused the iron to inch its way off the mantelpiece and fall on top of my head. I don't remember anything after that, Mam filled in the rest for me.
My head had to be bandaged or plastered and I wouldn’t go out without having it covered.
It seemed that things like that happened to me a lot when I was young.
I was just rereading your comment Rita. I agree it is great that all those negatives were kept. This one photo has generated a lot of interest and is the one with the most comments I think.
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