GENERATIONS : FAMILY PHOTO GALLERY

Frances Smith


Photo taken after the birth of my first granddaughter. This was the first great-grandchild for my parents. Four female generations.


Me (Frances) on the right, my daughter, Helen, left, my mom, Joan, holding Katie-May.
2008, Stechford, at my parents' house.
Stechford, at my parents' house., 2008

Sophia Oliver


In this picture we are all family. As you can see we are a very multicultural family. All the younger girls are first cousins and the older ladies are sisters. Our Nanny was born in the Himalayas and was brought up in Assam where she met our Grandad. He was Irish and they married and came back to UK. But not Birmingham, Newcastle. They moved to Birmingham to work on coal mines around 20 years after. My father's dad was brought up in Jamaica. He is Chinese Jamaican and my Grandad owned Fenkys Pattys in Hockley. My Nanny Fay was Jamaican. So, me Sophia cara, I feel one of a kind when I need to tick the box about my nationality, there isn't a box for me..... so I call myself a cocktail full of love


My Mom, Aunty's and Cousins
2020, 2 years ago
2 years ago, 2020

Patricia Egan


Three photographs of the female generations in the Egan family. Top left: my daughter Jayne Margaret Vickers (born 23 August 1969), and I. She was newly born here so I would have been 18. It was difficult having a child when you are no more than a girl yourself. I enjoyed being a mother and always did my best and worked hard, together with Jaynes father, to improve our lives. Middle: Holly Jayne Bennett (born 9 October 1989) with my daughter Jayne, her mom. Holly hasn’t had the easiest of lives, her dad died tragically at 32 when she was about 13. I think her life only really began when she had a family of her own. She is now studying to become a nurse. Right: Holly and Jayne taken holiday.


Patricia Egan, Jayne Vickers, and Holly Bennett
Approx. 1970 - 2001, Hall Green, Birmingham
Hall Green, Birmingham, Approx. 1970 - 2001

Terrie Odell


This picture is from a family holiday in Antalya a few years ago.


Mom, step Dad, 2 brothers, 2 sisters
2019, Antalya, Turkey
Antalya, Turkey , 2019

Peter Woodhall


Ernest Woodhall and siblings. The earliest photograph of my grandfather.


Ernest Woodhall and siblings Lillian Susan and Albert Edwin
1888, Manor Photographic Studios (Ja Fletcher, Lichfield Road, Aston)
Manor Photographic Studios (Ja Fletcher, Lichfield Road, Aston), 1888

Thomas Ward


My Grandparents (Walter and Kathleen) on their wedding day in 1960 at St Patrick’s RC Church, Winson Green, Birmingham. They were married for nearly 60 years.


Walter and Kathleen Cheshire
1960, St Patrick’s RC Church, Winson Green, Birmingham
St Patrick’s RC Church, Winson Green, Birmingham, 1960

Michael Kinson


My Great Grandparents and their seven children, one being my Grandad


My Great Grandparents, my Grandad and 6 Great Aunts and Uncles
1898, Probably Edgbaston or Central Birmingham, they lived on Islington Row
Probably Edgbaston or Central Birmingham, they lived on Islington Row, 1898

Colin Jessop


My nan


Ivy Billingsley and Prince
Approx 1960, Rear of outdoor on Wilson Street, now demolished
Rear of outdoor on Wilson Street, now demolished , Approx 1960

Joan Williams


The last seaside picture is mum Joan Williams and myself Dawn Corfield taken on holiday in Llandudno Wales. This is the holiday where I cried at Punch and Judy on the prom. I still don’t like them!!


Joan Williams and Dawn Corfield
1972, Wales
Wales, 1972

Karen Tongue


My paternal Grandfather, William Arthur Wheeler, his wife Lillian Cosier and their first born Lillian May Wheeler. Appears to be a studio portrait but there are no names on the print itself. Lillian bore 11 children between 1911 and 1931, sadly she then died in 1933 from breast cancer and secondary liver cancer. My father believed that his mother was 'disowned' as she had married out of their Jewish faith. However, I can find no record of a Jewish connection and believe it was more likely she was 'disowned' for being pregnant before she was married. From Census records I note she was living with her brother shortly before she got married.


William Arthur Wheeler b16/12/1889 - d25/01/1946 Lillian Cosier b10/04/1891 - d09/12/1933 They married at St Luke's Church, Birmingham 06/08/1911 Infant: Lillian May Wheeler b31/12/1911 - d not known
1912, Unknown
Unknown, 1912

Graham Knight


The White family moved to West Heath in 1953-1956 from Ladywood having first moved to Birmingham from South Warwickshire, where they were farmers, in the 1860s. In 1948 Ruby White (3rd from left back row) married Leonard Knight (taking the photo thus not in it), whose family had been agricultural workers in Suffolk since Anglo Saxon times. They moved to Turves Green in 1953, 3 months after the birth of their son, Graham, who is shown being held by Stan Ogidel. Stan was originally from Poland and settled in Birmingham after World War 2 with his his wife, Pearl, who was Ruby’s twin. The twins were children of Dick and Josie White, 2nd and 3rd from right, as was Dick, their eldest son (at right) and Joan (2nd from left). To Ruby’s left is Rose Page, Dick Jr’s 1st wife. The two older boys are Roger and Graham Hurcombe, sons of Ruby and Len’s next door neighbours.


Stan Ogidel, Joan White, Ruby Knight, Rose White, Dick White, Dick White Jr, Graham Knight, Roger Hurcombe, Graham Hurcombe, Josie White and Pearl Ogidel.
1954, In the back garden of 45 Turves Green, West Heath in Northfield, Birmingham, B31
In the back garden of 45 Turves Green, West Heath in Northfield, Birmingham, B31, 1954

Stephen Fell


Taken in May 2012, this is four generations of the Fell family. My father, sitting, was from a family of six, four brothers and two sisters. The other three brothers only had daughters so I was the only male Fell to continue the family name. Fortunately I had a son and this was the day that Great Grandad Fell got to hold his Great Grandson, George, for the first time.


My Dad Normal Fell (sitting), holding George Fell (my Grandson), my Son Richard Fell (standing right) and I, Stephen Fell (standing left)
May 2012, My parents house, Great Barr, Birmingham
My parents house, Great Barr, Birmingham, May 2012
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