Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Wartime wedding


Looking for something else, I re-found this picture of my parents wedding day in 1940s London. No honeymoon. I think he went straight back to the bombers. She might have  - briefly - resumed her career as a model, but not for long.

My father kept his RAF moustache right the way through my early childhood, so it never occurred to me that it was an Adolf Hitler type one and not the classic 'handlebar'!
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25 comments:

  1. Rosina Sestina29 August 2017 at 01:17

    They look a happy couple.

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  2. Jacqueline @ HOME29 August 2017 at 01:41

    You look like your Dad and I like your mum's hat ..... I think all of our parents weddings looked very similar. .... not as lavish as weddings today. I think I've got some bills of my mum and dads wedding somewhere, which was very modest. XXXX

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 August 2017 at 01:33

      I think the only other person there was the one who took the photo.

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  3. Cro Magnon29 August 2017 at 01:46

    There were some right dragons in my people's wedding pix!

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  4. Yael29 August 2017 at 02:50

    They look happy and beautiful. My fother still have the same moustache and he is 94.

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  5. donna baker29 August 2017 at 06:29

    They looked happy.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 August 2017 at 01:35

      They ended up happy but there was a long bit in the middle when they were not.

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  6. The Weaver of Grass29 August 2017 at 06:45

    Presumably you get your good looks from your mother (only imagining then as I have never seen you either in a photograph or in 'the flesh'. !)

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    1. Joanne Noragon29 August 2017 at 07:40

      I have seen a picture of Tom, with a tweed fedora and his coat lapels high. I can say with authority, though, he inherited his father's chin and nose.

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    2. Tom Stephenson30 August 2017 at 01:34

      I inherited his entire body and now I am paying for it.

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  7. Iris29 August 2017 at 08:27

    Your father is just beaming with happiness! That is great! Having been around long enough, I have seen the various pictures of you that you have posted. A long time ago you posted a close-up of your mothers face. I said back then that I thought you had her eyes.

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  8. Molly29 August 2017 at 09:09

    So glad you found the photo, Tom. It's lovely. Put it in pride of place.

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  9. Tom Stephenson29 August 2017 at 10:49

    I will reply to all individually later - I have just got in and am now cooking!

    Suffice to say that they may not be as happy as they look in the photo, for reasons which I may or may not divulge if I think it appropriate/inappropriate/decent behaviour.

    Things are seldom as they seem from the outside.

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  10. Yael29 August 2017 at 11:24

    I like that comment.(what are you cooking?).

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  11. John Going Gently29 August 2017 at 14:05

    Were you adopted?

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  12. libby29 August 2017 at 23:30

    Cooking after a day at work? well done.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 August 2017 at 01:28

      If I didn't, we would either starve or live on porridge with salad.

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