Family History

Spent some time going through some of the photographs of my late mother. It is strange looking back to a time before she met my father.

4000 Years and Counting

The Yew tree in the churchyard at Llangernyw is possibly 4000 years old. The churchyard also contains the graves of some family members from the family tree of my wife.

They used to be tenant farmers locally, at the start of the 20th century.

We still have the old kitchen table from their farmhouse and the old family story is, that at some point they lost the farm and did a midnight move with all their possessions that they could carry, roped into the upturned table that was sitting on a cart.

Llangrannog

I guess anyone who has a collection of old family photographs has some photographs that they can't associate with any of their relatives.

In my case I have a collection of prints of pictures taken all over Great Britain. Some I can recognise but most are of unknown locations. 

A very few of the pictures have a location written on the back but most don't. 

The composition of the pictures are all of good quality, far more than casual snaps. Very few have people in them. Infact more have horse and carts than people.

The main set of images that are annotated are from the small port of Llangrannog, located on the Welsh coast of Cardigan Bay near Newport.

It is hard to date these images. I would have a guess that they date from the turn off the 19/20th Century.