https://www.ipernity.com/tag/289709/keyword/1374687 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/103/AD/6B/289709.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/289709/keyword/1374687 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:41:01 +0000 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:41:01 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/53150928 tag:ipernity.com,2025-11-17,doc-53150928 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:19:14 +0000 2025-11-16T19:19:14-05:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/53150928"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/09/28/53150928.1355bd70.240.jpg?r2" width="163" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Pic #2 MAY QUEEN: THE REAL EVENT <br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/53150930" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img alt="hp scanDS 972721504942" src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/09/30/53150930.bc3ddd5f.500.jpg?r2" height="356" width="500" /></a></div> Pic #1 May Queen: The Dress Rehearsal:Vintage Photos Theme Park, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23, 2025 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/53150928"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/09/28/53150928.1355bd70.240.jpg?r2" width="163" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Pic #2 MAY QUEEN: THE REAL EVENT <br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/53150930" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img alt="hp scanDS 972721504942" src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/09/30/53150930.bc3ddd5f.500.jpg?r2" height="356" width="500" /></a></div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52625266 tag:ipernity.com,2024-10-02,doc-52625266 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:30:28 +0000 2024-09-09T17:30:28-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52625266"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/52/66/52625266.45eab77b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="238" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">September's Monthly Topic: BELOW<br /> Posted too early, removed, and then realized this is really an "above" picture. <br /> Also, should have been posted in September.<br /> Guess I was focusing on everyone looking below. <br /> I must have been coming up to Covid then and now it's a post Covid brain. <br /> Feeble excuses.<br /> My cousins John and Heather visiting us in our new house in Rayleigh c.1958<br /> I look terrified and my brother Nicholas has the closed eyes.<br /> I cannot figure out what is next to John's head.</div> On the Stairs <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52625266"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/52/66/52625266.45eab77b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="238" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">September's Monthly Topic: BELOW<br /> Posted too early, removed, and then realized this is really an "above" picture. <br /> Also, should have been posted in September.<br /> Guess I was focusing on everyone looking below. <br /> I must have been coming up to Covid then and now it's a post Covid brain. <br /> Feeble excuses.<br /> My cousins John and Heather visiting us in our new house in Rayleigh c.1958<br /> I look terrified and my brother Nicholas has the closed eyes.<br /> I cannot figure out what is next to John's head.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52493904 tag:ipernity.com,2024-06-10,doc-52493904 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:18:50 +0000 2024-06-10T18:24:16-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52493904"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/04/52493904.a1c669ec.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Re-scanned and re-uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: KIDDIE POOLS <br /> Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh, Essex c,1960.<br /> L to R; Gill, Ruth, Pauline, Frances, me, and unknown child.</div> A Crowded Pool <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/52493904"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/04/52493904.a1c669ec.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Re-scanned and re-uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: KIDDIE POOLS <br /> Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh, Essex c,1960.<br /> L to R; Gill, Ruth, Pauline, Frances, me, and unknown child.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/51825808 tag:ipernity.com,2023-03-24,doc-51825808 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:05:54 +0000 2023-03-13T19:39:00-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/51825808"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/58/08/51825808.53d133ce.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="147" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Here's a "twofer".<br /> Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SOMETHING INTERESTING OR SURPRISING IN THE BACKGROUND (Rayleigh Windmill)<br /> *AND*<br /> The monthly topic of: QUAINT, CHARMING, PICTURESQUE (Dutch Cottage)<br /> When I was growing up in Rayleigh, we used to pass this cottage all the time as we climbed up Crown Hill from the train station. However, I had never seen this view before, as it was taken from the back of the cottage - and I can see that from two things. First, Crown Hill Road is viewed to the right of the house (there was no road behind it) and second, Rayleigh windmill is pictured behind the house in a view only possible from behind! <br /> Here's some info on the windmill. (It didn't have the "sails" when I lived there either.)<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_Windmill" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_Windmill</a><br /> The cottage has an interesting history. It is currently owned by a local Council who rent it out on the condition that the public can come in and view it on given days.<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Cottage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Cottage</a><br /> I think this postcard was probably taken in the 1920s. The postcard below was taken in the 1970s and shows the front of the cottage.</div> Old Dutch Cottage - Rayleigh, Essex <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/51825808"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/58/08/51825808.53d133ce.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="147" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Here's a "twofer".<br /> Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SOMETHING INTERESTING OR SURPRISING IN THE BACKGROUND (Rayleigh Windmill)<br /> *AND*<br /> The monthly topic of: QUAINT, CHARMING, PICTURESQUE (Dutch Cottage)<br /> When I was growing up in Rayleigh, we used to pass this cottage all the time as we climbed up Crown Hill from the train station. However, I had never seen this view before, as it was taken from the back of the cottage - and I can see that from two things. First, Crown Hill Road is viewed to the right of the house (there was no road behind it) and second, Rayleigh windmill is pictured behind the house in a view only possible from behind! <br /> Here's some info on the windmill. (It didn't have the "sails" when I lived there either.)<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_Windmill" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_Windmill</a><br /> The cottage has an interesting history. It is currently owned by a local Council who rent it out on the condition that the public can come in and view it on given days.<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Cottage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Cottage</a><br /> I think this postcard was probably taken in the 1920s. The postcard below was taken in the 1970s and shows the front of the cottage.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790931 tag:ipernity.com,2010-11-26,doc-17790931 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:27:59 +0000 2010-11-26T12:03:04-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790931"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/31/17790931.503632fa.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Off the Hockley Road.<br /> Did we see a reform school or prison near here or am I dreaming this?</div> Rayleigh, Essex Outskirts, 1974 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790931"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/31/17790931.503632fa.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Off the Hockley Road.<br /> Did we see a reform school or prison near here or am I dreaming this?</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790925 tag:ipernity.com,2018-08-19,doc-17790925 Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:28:52 +0000 2010-11-26T12:20:33-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790925"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/25/17790925.7a2cef3a.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="168" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of:<br /> FIELDS, CROPS, PASTURES<br /> Rayleigh, Essex, England - on the way to Hockley. Taken with my Instamatic (if you couldn't tell.)<br /> Shortly after this I think we came upon a tiny hamlet with an old stone church.</div> Joanne and Poppies, 1974 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790925"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/25/17790925.7a2cef3a.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="168" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of:<br /> FIELDS, CROPS, PASTURES<br /> Rayleigh, Essex, England - on the way to Hockley. Taken with my Instamatic (if you couldn't tell.)<br /> Shortly after this I think we came upon a tiny hamlet with an old stone church.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/44294400 tag:ipernity.com,2017-02-10,doc-44294400 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:55:48 +0000 2012-11-14T20:30:27-05:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/44294400"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/00/44294400.ed5f8dd5.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Oh dear, my poor brother. I remember my mother being SO mad at him along the lines of "I haven't had a nice photo taken for ages!"<br /> I'm sure he didn't really mean to - just being a goofy boy.<br /> Poor kid.<br /> Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "photobomb".</div> Photobombed! <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/44294400"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/00/44294400.ed5f8dd5.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Oh dear, my poor brother. I remember my mother being SO mad at him along the lines of "I haven't had a nice photo taken for ages!"<br /> I'm sure he didn't really mean to - just being a goofy boy.<br /> Poor kid.<br /> Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "photobomb".</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/20607323 tag:ipernity.com,2011-08-04,doc-20607323 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:11:38 +0000 2011-08-04T00:11:09-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/20607323"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/130/73/23/20607323.dea5f7a9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="116" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">A clipping from a local newspaper sent to us in the U.S. after we emigrated.<br /> Probably late 1960s - early 1970s.<br /> I get the Indian theme but what is that strange building with windows in the background?<br /> I love the boys fighting about the bow in the background.<br /> <br /> My neighbor Ruth and I famously had a fight at our Love Lane pageant. We were about eight years old and had to perform a ribbon dance as part of the performance. The dance involved gamboling about in white dresses with partners and holding shared ribbons. Our ribbons were two tied together and one was nicer than the other (presumably) so, in the middle of the dance, with our mothers watching, we were furiously tugging on the ribbon to try to get (or keep) the "good side"<br /> I remember our mothers afterwards scolding us. "Typical! The two of you fighting up there.Everyone around us was laughing at both of you!!"<br /> We were mortified.<br /> I think we hadn't realized that other people would notice.</div> Love Lane School Pageant <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/20607323"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/130/73/23/20607323.dea5f7a9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="116" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">A clipping from a local newspaper sent to us in the U.S. after we emigrated.<br /> Probably late 1960s - early 1970s.<br /> I get the Indian theme but what is that strange building with windows in the background?<br /> I love the boys fighting about the bow in the background.<br /> <br /> My neighbor Ruth and I famously had a fight at our Love Lane pageant. We were about eight years old and had to perform a ribbon dance as part of the performance. The dance involved gamboling about in white dresses with partners and holding shared ribbons. Our ribbons were two tied together and one was nicer than the other (presumably) so, in the middle of the dance, with our mothers watching, we were furiously tugging on the ribbon to try to get (or keep) the "good side"<br /> I remember our mothers afterwards scolding us. "Typical! The two of you fighting up there.Everyone around us was laughing at both of you!!"<br /> We were mortified.<br /> I think we hadn't realized that other people would notice.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/19107349 tag:ipernity.com,2024-03-05,doc-19107349 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 02:02:39 +0000 2012-11-14T20:36:08-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/19107349"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/129/73/49/19107349.6a9b50a1.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SOMETHING OR SOMEONE BLOCKING THE VIEW<br /> My brother effectively blotting out my mother's (not often photographed at that time) face. <br /> She was not happy with him.<br /> We are with our next door neighbors, and later immigration pals, at one of the town parks.<br /> Ruth and I are sporting the ubiquitous 50s/60s English side hair ribbon. Auntie Vera is looking good.<br /> King George's Playing Field, Rayleigh, Essex, England.<br /> 1962</div> My Mother Was Not Pleased <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/19107349"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/129/73/49/19107349.6a9b50a1.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SOMETHING OR SOMEONE BLOCKING THE VIEW<br /> My brother effectively blotting out my mother's (not often photographed at that time) face. <br /> She was not happy with him.<br /> We are with our next door neighbors, and later immigration pals, at one of the town parks.<br /> Ruth and I are sporting the ubiquitous 50s/60s English side hair ribbon. Auntie Vera is looking good.<br /> King George's Playing Field, Rayleigh, Essex, England.<br /> 1962</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/18817293 tag:ipernity.com,2012-04-01,doc-18817293 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:35:38 +0000 2012-03-17T20:58:24-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/18817293"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/128/72/93/18817293.58bdec49.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="238" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">When the second hand's soft sweep tells me <br /> That the year before has gone and now<br /> I stand grown older: I lie and cry<br /> For the bright white cake with candles I used to see;<br /> And for the children, chattering bubbles in a Babel,<br /> Who would crowd about me with popping toys<br /> Of rainbow and pink paper of crepe that stretched;<br /> And for curls of girls reciting and the jealous-eyed boys<br /> Who brought presents in ribbons of red<br /> And fed themselves with chocolate babies.<br /> <br /> <br /> Richard Fariña</div> Birthday <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/18817293"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/128/72/93/18817293.58bdec49.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="238" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">When the second hand's soft sweep tells me <br /> That the year before has gone and now<br /> I stand grown older: I lie and cry<br /> For the bright white cake with candles I used to see;<br /> And for the children, chattering bubbles in a Babel,<br /> Who would crowd about me with popping toys<br /> Of rainbow and pink paper of crepe that stretched;<br /> And for curls of girls reciting and the jealous-eyed boys<br /> Who brought presents in ribbons of red<br /> And fed themselves with chocolate babies.<br /> <br /> <br /> Richard Fariña</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790911 tag:ipernity.com,2010-11-26,doc-17790911 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:29:32 +0000 2010-11-26T12:25:26-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790911"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/11/17790911.7505f950.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="184" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Taken to demonstrate the truly awesome slides they had in England!</div> Joanne Sliding in Fairview Park, Rayleigh, 1974 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790911"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/09/11/17790911.7505f950.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="184" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Taken to demonstrate the truly awesome slides they had in England!</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790805 tag:ipernity.com,2010-12-09,doc-17790805 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:35:22 +0000 2010-08-20T22:09:57-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790805"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/08/05/17790805.a047a5a6.240.jpg?r2" width="238" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Ruth and me - with my habitual unattractive squint into the sun and wearing that hated coat again.<br /> Mike 8y<br /> Don't forget, one sock at half-mast!!? ;)<br /> <br /> Richard Eric 8y<br /> You were correct about that coat. A character-builder, for sure.<br /> <br /> scientific country (deleted) 8y<br /> Like someone auditioning for the Sound of Music, very sweet. Bad luck on that coat by the way<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> OK, Abaraphobia - I wasn't going to list ALL the pathetic things about me but yes, the half mast sock and while we're at it, the trodden down shoes and the damn bangs or fringe cut by my mother -as usual crooked and way too short!<br /> Richard Eric - "I know, right?"<br /> (As everyone seems to be saying these days.)<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> Celia - do you mean the part where the Captain asks where Maria got her clothes - and Maria says from the poor donation box - and he says "What about the coat?" and she says "The poor didn't want this coat."<br /> Well, I've fumed about it already in another photo so I'll move on now!<br /> Forgiveness is a good thing.<br /> <br /> Richard Eric 8y<br /> You survived it brilliantly.<br /> <br /> Fevan51 8y<br /> Lovely old Rayleigh church. I went to Sunday school here. Had a wonderful Sunday school teacher who had a deformed hand. He told bible stories so well. Wish I had told him that at the time. <br /> I remember Ruth's coat with the bobbles. What was the occasion? Do you remember?<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> It is a lovely old church - they used stones from the old castle on Rayleigh Mount as part of the building material. I think it dates from the 14th century - at least part of it. <br /> The first time I ever realized that gravestones had people buried underneath was on a walk with your mum in this graveyard.<br /> The whole notion seriously freaked me out.<br /> I'm still bitter about Ruth's awesome bobble coat so I can't comment on it.<br /> : )<br /> I think we might have been to the market across the street (remember that?) And I think my mother took the picture.</div> Rayleigh Church, 1964 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17790805"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/08/05/17790805.a047a5a6.240.jpg?r2" width="238" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Ruth and me - with my habitual unattractive squint into the sun and wearing that hated coat again.<br /> Mike 8y<br /> Don't forget, one sock at half-mast!!? ;)<br /> <br /> Richard Eric 8y<br /> You were correct about that coat. A character-builder, for sure.<br /> <br /> scientific country (deleted) 8y<br /> Like someone auditioning for the Sound of Music, very sweet. Bad luck on that coat by the way<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> OK, Abaraphobia - I wasn't going to list ALL the pathetic things about me but yes, the half mast sock and while we're at it, the trodden down shoes and the damn bangs or fringe cut by my mother -as usual crooked and way too short!<br /> Richard Eric - "I know, right?"<br /> (As everyone seems to be saying these days.)<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> Celia - do you mean the part where the Captain asks where Maria got her clothes - and Maria says from the poor donation box - and he says "What about the coat?" and she says "The poor didn't want this coat."<br /> Well, I've fumed about it already in another photo so I'll move on now!<br /> Forgiveness is a good thing.<br /> <br /> Richard Eric 8y<br /> You survived it brilliantly.<br /> <br /> Fevan51 8y<br /> Lovely old Rayleigh church. I went to Sunday school here. Had a wonderful Sunday school teacher who had a deformed hand. He told bible stories so well. Wish I had told him that at the time. <br /> I remember Ruth's coat with the bobbles. What was the occasion? Do you remember?<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y<br /> It is a lovely old church - they used stones from the old castle on Rayleigh Mount as part of the building material. I think it dates from the 14th century - at least part of it. <br /> The first time I ever realized that gravestones had people buried underneath was on a walk with your mum in this graveyard.<br /> The whole notion seriously freaked me out.<br /> I'm still bitter about Ruth's awesome bobble coat so I can't comment on it.<br /> : )<br /> I think we might have been to the market across the street (remember that?) And I think my mother took the picture.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780187 tag:ipernity.com,2010-09-03,doc-17780187 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:25:47 +0000 2010-09-02T22:24:40-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780187"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/01/87/17780187.aeade97b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="227" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Ruth, me, Frances.<br /> Me, in a fantastic poodle sweater knit by my mother, and all of us in our fuzzy indoor slippers - a staple of English females.<br /> <br /> Ruth Brown 8y:<br /> I think this is the only picture I have seen showing the outside of that "oh so wonderful" house!!<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y:<br /> haha. yep, I've got a few more, too.<br /> Also pictures taken in the back garden.<br /> <br /> Fevan51 8y:<br /> How I hated that house! Guess that explains my pose and attitude. Did we actually have matching slippers?<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y:<br /> No, I don't think so. They were just those standard slippers with fuzzy tops that all 1960s English females had.</div> Brocksford Avenue, 1964 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780187"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/01/87/17780187.aeade97b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="227" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Ruth, me, Frances.<br /> Me, in a fantastic poodle sweater knit by my mother, and all of us in our fuzzy indoor slippers - a staple of English females.<br /> <br /> Ruth Brown 8y:<br /> I think this is the only picture I have seen showing the outside of that "oh so wonderful" house!!<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y:<br /> haha. yep, I've got a few more, too.<br /> Also pictures taken in the back garden.<br /> <br /> Fevan51 8y:<br /> How I hated that house! Guess that explains my pose and attitude. Did we actually have matching slippers?<br /> <br /> Deborah Lundbech 8y:<br /> No, I don't think so. They were just those standard slippers with fuzzy tops that all 1960s English females had.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780151 tag:ipernity.com,2010-09-04,doc-17780151 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:09:16 +0000 2010-09-03T23:08:34-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780151"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/01/51/17780151.ca7ca4be.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="234" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "Playing cards and board games."<br /> <br /> My father and Uncle Bill (Swineburne).<br /> In the background me, Dorothy, Nicholas and Kate.<br /> Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh, Essex, England.<br /> Chess players - who's winning?</div> Chess on a Summer Afternoon, 1962 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/17780151"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/127/01/51/17780151.ca7ca4be.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="234" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "Playing cards and board games."<br /> <br /> My father and Uncle Bill (Swineburne).<br /> In the background me, Dorothy, Nicholas and Kate.<br /> Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh, Essex, England.<br /> Chess players - who's winning?</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16811067 tag:ipernity.com,2010-01-02,doc-16811067 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:58:07 +0000 2009-06-20T21:30:00-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16811067"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/10/67/16811067.6f42e05d.240.jpg?r2" width="237" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Our cousins first visit to our new house - 23 Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh.<br /> Heather looks SO much like her mum to me (preceding picture.)</div> John, Heather, Deborah, Nicholas - 1958 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16811067"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/10/67/16811067.6f42e05d.240.jpg?r2" width="237" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Our cousins first visit to our new house - 23 Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh.<br /> Heather looks SO much like her mum to me (preceding picture.)</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629517 tag:ipernity.com,2009-09-24,doc-16629517 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:29:14 +0000 2009-09-23T22:28:33-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629517"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/95/17/16629517.678fe20f.240.jpg?r2" width="148" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Look at my hair! <br /> My Nana was visiting and told my mother she would take me for a needed hair cut. ( A shop at the bottom of Daws Heath Road and Eastwood Road, Rayleigh People.)<br /> The hairdresser was a very young trainee. I forget the details but someone startled her and she cut this massive chunk out of my bangs!<br /> My grandmother paid her (my memory says half a crown) and laughed merrily all the way back home because she tipped her and realized she probably shouldn't have.<br /> I don't remember being that amused.<br /> I'm 8 years old.</div> School Photo - 1962 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629517"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/95/17/16629517.678fe20f.240.jpg?r2" width="148" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Look at my hair! <br /> My Nana was visiting and told my mother she would take me for a needed hair cut. ( A shop at the bottom of Daws Heath Road and Eastwood Road, Rayleigh People.)<br /> The hairdresser was a very young trainee. I forget the details but someone startled her and she cut this massive chunk out of my bangs!<br /> My grandmother paid her (my memory says half a crown) and laughed merrily all the way back home because she tipped her and realized she probably shouldn't have.<br /> I don't remember being that amused.<br /> I'm 8 years old.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629459 tag:ipernity.com,2009-09-19,doc-16629459 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:42:17 +0000 2009-09-19T19:40:12-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629459"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/94/59/16629459.4ab4dea1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="237" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Nicholas at 23 Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh. <br /> 1959.</div> Riding the Wild Front Garden Path <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629459"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/94/59/16629459.4ab4dea1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="237" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Nicholas at 23 Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh. <br /> 1959.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629305 tag:ipernity.com,2009-09-22,doc-16629305 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:03:43 +0000 2009-09-21T17:13:44-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629305"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/93/05/16629305.a5aa4c8c.240.jpg?r2" width="146" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Love Lane Primary School.<br /> The following year we were given plastic flowers to hold, but these are real dahlias (which I'm trying to grow for the first time myself, this year.)<br /> I was wearing a dress my mother made - a pale yellow strip print with this large collar - I loved it. I'm sure she knit the sweater too. I'm also wearing a silver christening ring that sadly I lost long ago. I'm six.</div> School Photo - 1960 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629305"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/93/05/16629305.a5aa4c8c.240.jpg?r2" width="146" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Love Lane Primary School.<br /> The following year we were given plastic flowers to hold, but these are real dahlias (which I'm trying to grow for the first time myself, this year.)<br /> I was wearing a dress my mother made - a pale yellow strip print with this large collar - I loved it. I'm sure she knit the sweater too. I'm also wearing a silver christening ring that sadly I lost long ago. I'm six.</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629309 tag:ipernity.com,2022-08-06,doc-16629309 Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:57:06 +0000 2009-09-19T17:02:50-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629309"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/93/09/16629309.3d8978ed.240.jpg?r2" width="152" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SCHOOL DAYS<br /> I forget what they call Kindergarten in England but this was it for me, although it used to be that, after turning 5, you could enter either in September or after Easter break - and I started in April so only had until then to mid July for my Kindergarten experience.<br /> It's interesting to me to see that little tuft of white hair over my ear. My mother had the same white tuft as did my eldest son. <br /> Now, of course, if I still had it it would be lost in my totally white hair!</div> First School Photo - 1959 <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16629309"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/93/09/16629309.3d8978ed.240.jpg?r2" width="152" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SCHOOL DAYS<br /> I forget what they call Kindergarten in England but this was it for me, although it used to be that, after turning 5, you could enter either in September or after Easter break - and I started in April so only had until then to mid July for my Kindergarten experience.<br /> It's interesting to me to see that little tuft of white hair over my ear. My mother had the same white tuft as did my eldest son. <br /> Now, of course, if I still had it it would be lost in my totally white hair!</div> Deborah Lundbech https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16587345 tag:ipernity.com,2009-07-28,doc-16587345 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:32:02 +0000 2009-07-27T19:23:31-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16587345"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/73/45/16587345.a3762256.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">My brother Nicholas in the back garden of our house at Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh. About 1963, wearing his school sweater.</div> Cowboy with a Love Lane Pullover <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/289709">Deborah Lundbech</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/289709/16587345"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/126/73/45/16587345.a3762256.240.jpg?r2" width="236" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">My brother Nicholas in the back garden of our house at Woodlands Avenue, Rayleigh. About 1963, wearing his school sweater.</div> Deborah Lundbech