Archive Photographs

Archive Photographs - Family

We're sorting through all of mum and dads boxes and boxes of photographs....and posting some here for relatives and friends to enjoy. They're being posted 'as they come out of the box' so for the time being won't be in any particular order.

Above and below: Mum in March 1951, age 14, pictured with her classmates at Heaton High School.

Below: Three pictures of Heather Packwood. at Weston Favell County Primary school circa 1969.

Below: Dad. Gordon Arthur Packwood. Earles Barton, circa 1930 (age 5)

Below: Mike around 1965, age 3. Probably the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Below: Dads parents on their wedding day. Not sure of date but probably early 20's.

Below: Me, Heather, Dad. Probably Wicksteed Park around 1967.

Below: Lily Violet Hall. Mums mum. 1903-1976. Taken in 1923.

Below: Dad on RAF service. Bombay, India, 1945

Below: Dad and his elder brother Douglas, 1945.

Below: Dad on a troop ship returning from India 1946.

Below: Dad 1953, age 28

Below: Dad in 1936 age 12

Below: Mum and Dad getting married, Wellingboro Registery Office, with me and Heather, 1967 (?)

Below: Alan, 1972/3

Below: me, Alan, Mum and Dad around 1972. Saunderfoot I think.

Below: Heather and me. Weston Favell County Primary School, Northampton, around 1970.

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