Who are they?

Years ago I bought this photo album in a charity shop. In fact, I have a few. This one is small enough to hold in one hand, and embossed with horse chestnut leaves on the covers. I love to look through the photos and try to work out the connections between the people - and where they are, what they're doing and what their lives might have been like.

There's a lady with a dog in her lap, wearing what might be 1930s casual clothing.

There's this picture of people on a beach looking incredibly joyous - what news had they just had? What was making them so carefree?

Then there are more stern pictures with grandparents in them - little round glasses and white hair in plaits around the head - posing with three generations.

Another shows a racy set of ladies in 1930s wide leg pants and short sleeved blouses looking pretty fruity.

Elsewhere there are wedding pictures, only 2x4; a horse and cart ploughing a field; a proud looking policeman in his uniform; a sepia portrait of a fine young miss taken by "Raeburn Studios, Pittville Gates, Cheltenham Spa".

There's even a postcard of Monaco.

A postcard 'Best wishes on your wedding anniversary' is addressed to Betty and Reg from Dorothy and Len.

Later in the book there's a picture a stern gent "JP MP" and of the Police Convalescent Home.

The pictures definitely tell a story, but what is it. I find it endlessly fascinating.