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| St Bartholomew's Church early 2000s |
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| The Happy Couple |
Val told me that our mother 'wore a royal blue velvet suit (still have the gilt buttons), blue felt beret & grey moc croc shoes. I remember the suit, stored in tissue, and the shoes were soft grey suede with moc croc rosettes. The jaunty beret had a stiff brim to sit firmly on the head. I think she has flower petals in her hair too, thrown like confetti?
I suggested the outfit would probably have been purchased with coupons and Val said: 'Must have been family sharing coupons I think!'
Val also said that 'Mum had a throwing out/selling off phase. The shoes outlived the suit in their box wrapped with tissue - if I could have got my feet into them I'd have run off with them [we both love shoes!]. Probably a chapel jumble sale. I know I rescued the suit buttons but don't know when.'
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| Family Group |
In the Family Group photo above the people from left to right are:
1st left: may be Edith Walker née Bott (Dad's Aunt)
2nd from left: may be Dad's grandmother but which one?
3rd from left: Dad's sister, Edith Irene Bott
4th from left: Mother of the Groom, Elizabeth Bott née Insley
Groom: Rowland Bott
Bride: Joan Evelyn Bott née Lydeard
Right of bride: William Uwin Lydeard (bride's youngest brother known as Bill)
Woman with child: Mother of the Bride, Emma Lydeard née Capey
Child: Andrew Brooks Lydeard, son of Roy and Jo Lydeard*
3rd from right: Elma Capey Thomas née Lydeard (bride's elder sister)
2nd from right: Percy Alfred Thomas, Elma's husband
Far right: *José (known as Jo) Lydeard née Box, mother of Andrew Brooks Lydeard and wife of Roy Brooks Lydeard (bride's eldest brother - not in photo)
I love the above photo of the wedding guests, family and friends. I do not know who they all are but hope that one of the young women is Gladys Cooper, the bride's best friend. On the right of the porch someone should really have noticed, and perhaps moved, the ladder and plank!
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| Wedding guests outside church porch |
The above photograph has Dad's best man far left, Reg Parrish, then Dad and his new wife. On the right is Roy Brooks Lydeard, the bride's elder brother who gave her away.
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| Wedding Cake |
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| Cutting the cake |
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| Honeymoon, Coombe Martin, Devon |
