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Family History: The 1970s, Timperley and Sandbach, Cheshire - 24th January 2020

It's the 1970s, or thereabouts, and there's a trip to somewhere near Newquay, then just one photo from the house on Greenhill Road in Timperley, Greater Manchester. In the middle are some random school photos, then it's Neil and Caroline's wedding and finally another memorable holiday to somewhere near Malton in the North Riding of Yorkshire. There are also three previously-unknown black and whites from around 1970 which were darkroom-printed from the original negatives in 2020, making it probably 50 years since they were last seen by anyone. These include the only photo known to exist of Granny's mobile home caravan, out in the woods of Matchams. There's also a complete run of school photos from Offley County Junior School in Sandbach between the years of 1975 - when we moved to Sandbach - and 1978, when Nosher left for Sandbach Grammar. Somewhere in the photos would be chums Christopher Leigh, Stuart Eaton, Michael Harrison and Phillip Littlemore, who would later become famous as a brass-band player.

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Mother, Sis, Granny and Nosher by the River Stour in Christchurch Park, 1970

Mother, Sis, Granny and Nosher by the River Stour in Christchurch Park, 1970

Granny and her Mobile Home, Matchams, 1970

Mother in the back garden of Raven Road

In the woods somewhere, 1971

At play school in Knutsford, 1971/2

Greenhill Road, Timperley, Cheshire, circa 1974

Could be the New Forest somewhere, 1975

Grandmother, Neil and Caroline

Caroline and Bruno

Judith with Nosher

Nosher and Sis

Grandad and Grandmother (left and right)

On the beach with the Old Man

Nosher and Sis get buried in sand

On a beach somewhere

Sis

Caroline, outside the house in Burton

Caroline in wedding veil

Nosher as pageboy, Neil and Caroline's wedding, 1974

Bridesmaids and pageboy

Purple velvet pageboy

Caroline

Caroline and Neil

Nosher and Sis by a lake

Beach holiday near Torquay, Devon, 1975

Sis's school photo, Offley, Sandbach, 1975 or 76

An Offley School photo from 1975

Offley Junior School photo, 1976

Offley County Junior on the Queen's Jubilee, 1977

Offley County Junior school photo, Sandbach, 1978

Nosher with a school star badge

A walk in some formal gardens, possibly Alton Towers

In front of some rhododendrons

On holiday near Malton, Yorkshire, 1975

Sis in the garden at Malton

Nosher builds a dam, Malton

Stick boy in a field in Yorkshire

Nosher looks back as two cows have a paddle

Nosher picks feathers out of thistles

An au pair, possibly Danielle from Switzerland

We're camping in someone's garden

In someone's garden with a tent

Neil and Caroline with Uncle James