On the beach

My younger brother has been staying for a few days and this morning ,  as it was wet and windy outside, we decided to tackle some of the boxes of old photographs that my mother had left - attack that is long overdue. 

It was a fascinating exercise, and I particularly loved this image - my mother's two brothers (Norman and Ian) and her parents somewhere on the beach probably around the mid 1930s.  It might be North Berwick given it was in a pile that included my mother diving from one of the boards at the old outdoor pool, but I don't know the place well enough to identify the wall in the picture.  Perhaps someone other blipper will recognise it ! 

There were, as ever in these images, no  concessions to the warmth, but my grandfather did have dark glasses on , which I suspect was a bit of a novelty at the time. 

Perhaps the job was too fascinating as we have still  to even start on three small suitcases of pictures from both Cathleen's and my families.