Wigan Album

Another good one Maureen with your mum and dad- what a happy family!

Thank you again Veronica,you're very kind.

Another fab pic of Maureen and her parents. Maureen you are so like your Mam.

Gorgeous! Both you and your mum very stylish ladies, Maureen! No going to Tesco in pyjamas for you, certainly, And you are still very smart today. Lovely photos. X

Lovely. I hope we photos of the wedding.

Thank you Irene..my Mam was always stylish and woe betide me if I wore anything less.
Thank you Marie,but I'm not good at putting photos on here,someone had to put them on for me.

Hello Elizabeth..I know,I go more like my Mam every day..and thank you.

Maureen: I see a very pretty young woman, and your mum and dad look very nice, your dad looks easy golng. To think Maureen in 1967 I was just about to leave school, how time goes by.

It looks like your drink was at last being brought over to you Maureen.

Thank you John for your kind comments..my Dad was a big gentle man,I never saw him lose his temper,never heard him swear,he was my hero really.His name for me was 'Chic'

Philip,I probably didn't want one..I've changed since though.ha ha

Wow, I need a sherry maureen.
lovely photo.

I'll have one with you Garry,I just fancy a sherry.

Count me in, please, Maureen and Garry! x.

Michael must have opted out. Very nice photo Maureen.

What a lovely photograph Maureen. Then there was music with wonderful roses?

Thank you Roy. I hope you are keeping well.x

Maureen your dad must have been very proud to have two lovely ladies either side of him! He looks like the cat that got the cream!

Thank you TD.

Veronica,I have no doubt that he was,but no prouder than I was of him..when I was about thirteen I wanted to see a particular film at the Court cinema,my Dad wanted to see it as well..so there we were stood in the queue when one of my School friends came to say "awwww Maureen I'm going to tell your Mam you're going out with a lad "and was I proud to say "This is my Dad",it can't be seen on these photos but he was just like Robert Mitchum..even Cliff says when we see a film with him in I can only see your Dad...the only snag was we ddnt have him long enough..he was known as Mac...and thank you Veronica.x

You can't always see everything in a photo as people imagine Maureen that's why artists like to paint from life. I used to think my dad looked like Jimmy Cagney!!!****

Maureen went on thames from windsor to oxford around 1970 it took seven days, we hired a boat lovely area

Yes thank you Maureen i'm fine, here's hoping you both are.

Hello Tom,we hired ours from Bushnells of Wargrave..it was a beautiful boat.we like you went everywhere in it..I can honestly say that I could live on a boat ,.roll on the lottery eh.

maureen i remember a lot of celebs of the 60s lived near the river at that time

Nice pic Maureen, looks like luvverly summers evening>

Yes Tom,we saw Diana Dors house,and the landlord of the pub that we were outside of was an actor off the Telly..quite a few more which I can't bring to mind just now,have just got back a four hour journey from Northumberland..my brains a bit addled...

Johnny thank you,it was a beautiful evening but not every day was sunny,very muggy some days,but when the sun shines it's surprising how the reflection of the water can tan you quickly.

hi maureen my sister lived in windsor took us to diana dors house, a lot of celebs lived around windsor then.

Hello Tom,and wasn't there a boat that used to be in a crisp advert as well.

funny you should mention that maureen my sister had a boat it was called the [the tasty cracker} but i dont remember the crisp advert

I don't remember the advert now Tom..I'll have a toot on Google.

What I love about pictures like this are the fashions. I like the fact that both ladies are wearing tights/stockings no matter how warm the day is. Fashion these days means that even at weddings so females have legs like snow and if they have weightlifters legs then the effect is even more startling. Done are the days when people dressed classily and knew what was smart and when to wear it.

Julie: I can honestly say that if I was out for the night, and a female in the room had weight lifters legs, then it's exit stage left.

Julie,you are so right,I was at my Sons wedding last week. I rarely. wear tights because I wear trousers so much..but I wouldn't have dreamt of turning up at the wedding bare legged,bare legs do not look nice anywhere any time,I also want to start wearing more dresses ( and tights ) again.

Julie/Maureen.
Perry & Croft held your views as well, apparently, in the Dad's Army episode Never Too Old.
Mrs Fox stated that a bare-legged woman looks 'abandoned', and as one of her stockings had a patch, was faced with the possibility that it could become a run, and thus making her look even more abandoned.
She then sought Mainwaring's ok for her to get married bare-legged, to Jonesy. Strewth!

At least they had an excuse during the war when they put gravy browning on their legs and drew a line up the back of the legs. No wonder the Yanks were so popular with the nylons! I must admit on really hot days I like to feel 'abandoned' in a summer dress or skirt during the day.. I think that is permissable. But turning up at some 'do' or other with toned,tanned muscular legs is a turn off - such as a race meeting wearing outrageous hats and tight short frocks! My pet hate is fake tan !

That's right, Veronica: Some girls attending certain 'special do's' sometimes don't seem to appear in dress and manner that might otherwise afford themselves 'real punch'.
Perhaps if they were to apply a little more thought and patience beforehand they might also save themselves from an un-fulfilling race for vainglory, and just as importantly, from their occasional and needless use of language reminiscent of the back of a coal fire.
Furthermore, some of the lads attending certain 'special do's' seem to have succumbed to the same haste.
I understand their preference for a bit of shine on top, but half a pound of bear's grease is surely taking sartorial elegance to a completely new level.
Whatever, my bewilderment will be blasted into oblivion the very moment that I sit in front of your well-balanced and well-coloured watercolour paintings.
I've told you that D/R Cobalt blue is opaque, before, ... haven't I?

You have mentioned Cobalt being opaque Philip but somehow I prefer it to French Ultra! If I was anywhere near as good as you with water colour I would be very happy! I have nearly replaced all my paints with Artist quality - more economical that's for sure. Still plodding on anyway....!

Thanks for your kind reply Veronica.
I do hope that you'll have a look at a particular piece of colour film on YouTube, which I'm sure you'll enjoy.
The film is only 3 mins long, but extremely clear, and shows the 76 year-old artist laying out his 1956 Artists' quality watercolours in his studio, in readiness for his painting of a ballerina, wearing a long frilly dress.
The commentator plays his part with fine English accent.
'British Pathe William Russell Flint' will find it for you.

Awesome! Sir William liked his women abandoned and bare legged - what would Mrs Fox have made of it all I do not know Philip. Beautiful paintings and the commentary superb.