Contributors and credits

Blipped here is the family team behind Lorna’s blipfoto journal. In the top photo we have:

Middle - Gillian Barrington (née Lloyd), daughter of Lorna’s brother Theo, Lorna’s niece
Right - Jonathan Lloyd, son of Lorna’s brother Theo, Lorna’s nephew
Left - Hazel Hall, Gillian Barrington’s daughter-in-law, blipper hazelh - journal at http://blipfoto.com/hazelh

In the bottom photograph are:

Left - Guy Puzey, grandson of Lorna’s first cousin Diana, Lorna’s third cousin twice removed. Guy is holding his baby son Enrico - great grandson of Lorna’s first cousin Diana, Lorna’s fourth cousin thrice removed
Right - Tim Read, grandson of Lorna’s brother Theo, son of Gillian Barrington (above), Lorna's great nephew, husband of hazelh, AKA Mr hazelh

Other members of the wider Lloyd family also made contributions to this journal, notably in helping to identify and name individuals on old photographs.

The credits:

Provision of access to the war diary: Jonathan Lloyd
Transcription of diary entries: Jonathan Lloyd
Supply of the archive of artwork and additional writing, family scrapbooks and photograph albums, liaising with members of the Lloyd family, e.g. to access help in identifying people on old photographs: Gillian Barrington
Supply of additional Lloyd family photographs and further genealogical information: Guy Puzey
Technical support, searching public records for details of Lorna’s father Albert: Mr hazelh
Blipping (obsessively) on behalf of Lorna as her secret recreational project hazelh

We are also grateful to the following blippers who have also contributed to the journal as Lorna’s regular correspondents:

- for coining a new genre of biographical writing, the ‘Blip journal biography’: Kendalishere

- for correcting hazelh’s typos, errors, and dodgy links - amandoAlentejo, blouseybrown, ceridwen, DarkReader, DHThomas, flumgummery, JohnRJ, norfolkdoc, pandammonium

- for helping hazelh to decipher terrible handwriting - JohnRH, walkingMarj

- for additional information on topics covered in Lorna’s blips, including airship design, art, British colonies, fashion, feminism, gardening, heraldry, history, horse-drawn carriages, literature, music, photograph processing, photography staging, poetry, royalty, World War II: Brens, billygoat, ceridwen, DHThomas, CarolineJay,  Crispin25, Dodders, Jelleybaby, JohnD, Joyful, njoyce06, pandammonium , stuarteff, tfb

- for book recommendations: ceridwen (Love and war in London by Olivia Crockett) JohnEdward (Our longest days by Sandra Koa Wing), kirstyk (Love in the Blitz by Eileen Alexander), Veronica (Nella Last’s mass observation project diaries), walkingMarj (Written by candlelight by Liesbeth Langford), Wildwood (The splendid and the vile by Erik Larson)

- for television and film recommendations:  blouseybrown (Darkest hour), ChrisG (World on fire), JohnD (World at War), Jeanne53 (The blitz)

- for links to other relevant material/places to visit: 1bluebell, Crispin25, DHThomas, flumgummery, Igor, Jeano, jelleybaby, rickyshitpants, scribbler

- for suggestions of the location of Lorna’s family’s house in Stirling: Dakers, JohnD, Tweedy

- for prompting us to enter Lorna’s father’s photograph of the Newport Arch, Lincoln into MM356, and earn an honourable mention: GEO2B

- for checking genealogical sources on our behalf: Winsford

- for assessing the accuracy of Lorna’s French: Veronica

- for humourous comments: Brens, Crispin25, JohnD, pandammonium

- for being there for Lorna - all listed above, and other Lorna ‘regulars’ such as Battenberg, DarkEyedMary, debsdad, incredibish, Kaybee, LauriesPictos, Nettenet, PatMacCan, Rosemarie55, SkyeGirl, smilelikeabunny, SueSouth, Technophobe, Terrifo, and Woolley.

You may also be interested in heading over to hazelh’s Blipfoto journal entry today to read about her experience of undertaking the ’secret recreational project’ of Lorna’s blipfoto journal.

Tomorrow we will post our last entry to this blipfoto journal. This will be an obituary for Lorna.