Share your memories
Just had a very reflective two weeks, with first my daughter, then my Mum and lastly with my 2 best friends of 50years. Whilst with my mates we discussed a local beach where my family often holidayed. Newgale in Pembrokeshire. One remembered visiting us and our kids all playing on the beach. I didn’t, so she sent me the photo below. We have just had a fabulous conversation about memories. I loved our jumpers. The sandals Im holding were a favourite for years. I sent to my daughter and we had a Laugh about how young we all looked some 30 years ago. She then said it could be a Photo shoot for The Sweater Shop. A chain store I loved but had forgotten it existed.
We went on to discuss our massive photo collections some in albums but also bags and envelopes. My Mum has hers and mine. None of us want them to be a problem after our time. I have vowed to start sorting them in small bursts everytime I visit Mum in the future. We will both enjoy the trip down memory lane. I also intend to share all the duplicates with people who might enjoy the memory jogger. Its such a shame to see them as a problem. Magic little snap shots in time. The next generation will not have the same issue; or certainly not in the same quality.
I have also decided to have a little ceremonial burning of unwanted ones and will sprinkle the ashes in the garden. Will also pass those instruction on; for after my time. I hate to think of them going into the bin.
Just one daft holiday snap has had me chatting to so many people today. And now you guys. Thanks for reading if you got this far.
@tjay Great memories. After last year I asked my daughter what photos she wished for me to keep for her. She went through a big box of photos I have. She chose what she would like. I then laminated them all. Took me a very long time. I also done some for my sister in law. I have everything of importance in one treasure chest. Not a large one . 🙂 My daughter will have everything in one spot that she will need. I found photos my sister sent me. They arrived three days after she died. She had posted them the day before. Trouble is I dont know who some of the people are in the photos. There is no one left to ask. I done the ancestry on the family and printed that out as well. So finally all organised. 😀
Brilliant. They are so important. How bitter sweet that your sister sent them so soon before she died. It was obviously important to her that you had them. 💔 Its good that you have one daughter who you trust to hold true to your wishes. 💕
@tjay she sent them to me so I could copy them for myself and laminate them for her and send them back. I done that and gave them to my brother in law. I just wish I knew who some of them were.
You have reminded me that I have an unfinished project. Barely started in actual fact. I have a heck of a lot of pics digitally stored which I should sort out. There are so many that the emotional value of many of them is diluted a bit, when compared to proper photos like yours which were done more sparingly and less often, so they mean quite a lot more.
I dont know my Mum was a photo fiend after my kids were born. None around of me and my brother. Maybe we were adopted???
Really? They might be somewhere else? Photos do get handed around sometimes I think. Either that or you may have taken a dislike to them and secretly destroyed them yourself and blanked it out of memory 😂
No I dont think it was the norm to take lots of photos back then. Not amongst the working class anyway.