Wigan Album

My goodness that is a fantastic photo, how old must it be ?

Hauntingly beautiful - it looks like a painting.

Name: Clara Webster
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 16 Nov 1889
Residence Date: 1939
Address: Black House Hotel
Residence Place: Standish with Langtree, Lancashire, England
Occupation: Unpaid Domestic Duties Household Members Age
John Webster 54 Licensee
Clara Webster 50 Unpaid Domestic Duties
Ronald Webster 17 Mechanic Motor Haulage Contractor

It does indeed Veronica.

It looks cold with the haw frost on the bushes & looking at the woman on the right in closeup, she seems to be wearing a piece of sacking as a shawl. I wonder who said , Come out in the snow & have your picture taken ? Its just fascinating to look at.

Certainly has all the ingredients of the Christmas carol. ‘In the bleak midwinter’.

Thanks Winnie, the date of residence at the Black Horse is very helpful.

Eeeh by gum! ....they were made of stern stuff in th' oulden days...

Beautiful photograph.

Do we live like mist we see,
or ice made droplets from each tree,
wrapped in shawls to protect from cold,
moments captured that then seem old,
faces looking that now seem far,
put to memory of who they are,
moments, seconds , a haunting mist,
like ice we melt , from a closeness kissed...