Hobnob House family tree
contact: John Davis webmaster@ivu.org
Search this site:

Index to Photographs from John & Hazel's family website

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE/Downley - old photos
Click on photos for bigger images. Some lead to collections of more photos as indicated


Eliza Avery, nee Stratford, (b.1850), probably in Downley in the late 1920s when Eliza was in her late 70s. Her granddaughter Evelyn Taylor, b.1918, was present and remembers that as granny came round the corner of the house she said "ooh, someone's taking my likeness".


Eliza, right, with her daughter Ruth, left and Ruth's mother-in-law Sarah Taylor. Probably also in the 1920s.

Details for first 4 photos


Sarah (Sadie) Avery (b.1893), probably in the 1920s


Walter Avery, appears to be during WWI


Ernest Stratford and Caroline, nee Avery. The photo above was probably taken when Ernest joined the army, most likely in 1915


Kathleen Ruth Stratford, probably at Chapel Street, Downley c.1917

 


The army group has a board reading: '9th Gloster Pioneers, Leichlingen, Germany. June 16, 1918 (or 1919)'. Ernest Stratford is 2nd from the left.


Kathleen in Brownies uniform, probably outsie the cottage in Chapel Street, mid-1920s


Caroline, middle row, centre, with the Downley Choral Society, probably around 1930


Kathleen, middle row, third from left, apparently in a 'Mummers Play', in the early 1920s


Caroline in costume (on the right), for a local drama group and . . .


. . .in another costume (under the banner) on Downley Common, possibly a Jubilee event. Both probably 1930s.


Kathleen (in the wider hat) with her cousin Vera Lewis . . .


. . . and some unknown men in the 1930s.


Kathleen in the 1930s

     

 


Caroline, front right, probably from 1950s, circumstances unkown


Ernest age 80, with granddaughter, Hazel age 16, September 1964, Cliftonville.

Details for all down to here

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

above, left and right, some of the Langleys from Downley

details