A Super Family Photo

 

Some years ago George BARKER was interviewed for a great piece on the on the campaign to save the Marquis of Lansdowne.  I re read it recently and noticed that it included a great photograph of my 'half' siblings' with their 'half siblings' - the latter of course not being (technically) relatives of mine.  It reminds me of how families are a lot more than lines on a chart and that many families are really quite complicated!  It is alway demonstrates the importance of 'place'.  This pub was common to all of us having been run by the Barkers/Wilsons and Trendalls for over half a century.

This photograph was taken around 1957 in the back yard of the Marquis of Lansdowne 32 Cremer Street London E2.

Does anybody remember it being taken?  Who took it?  Was it a special occasion?  

From Left to Right:  Maureen TRENDALL, Frederick (Freddy) TRENDALL, Eileen BARKER, Christine TRENDALL and George BARKER.  The wall was the large (and eventually unsafe) boundary wall of the Marquis of Lansdowne - note the Charrington beer crates on the left

Blogpost May 2025