14 November 2005

First ice of the winter on windscreens this morning, but a beautiful sunny day. The picture is of a large part of the Lenton family taken in the late 1950s. I am at the right in the front line, complete with cap. Matriarch Rosa Dorothy (nee Booth) is in the centre standing.  Next to me is my lovely cousin Barbara. Her brother Adrian is on the left, and between them are Stephen and Patricia. Their mother Thelma, standing on the left, is holding her third child, Mark. Her husband Paul is behind her.  The  always delightful woman sitting next to them is Dorothy, Paul’s sister. Others in the picture are Ken and Eve (Barbara and Adrian’s parents) and Frank and Mary. On my grandmother’s right is Ruth, eldest daughter of Reg, who is not in the picture. He may have been holding the camera, because I believe the picture was taken at Brenda’s wedding. Brenda is Reg’s second daughter; he and his wife Dorothy (also not in picture) had a son, Jonathan, as well.