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Well if it hadn't been for you two, who knows when I would have got round to looking:)) Thank you. Chrissie xx

Hi Chrissie good for Jan and Rick ;-) But you would have gone there eventually but I may have been in bed by then ;-) Now what can I say to you? Think our Maz in the East End says it I am sure she won't mind if I quote her :- it's so nice when lovely things happen to lovely people! Chrissie that is so you ;-) Thanks for sharing that with us :-))) Pat x

Chrissie, I am green with envy ! and very happy for you. Lindy ;-))))))))))

Chrissie - lovely story and lucky your mum put some names on the photos - I asked my parents several times to do so with their pics but they never got around to it. I have loads of old photos only some of which I recognise the subjects of. Recently I was rooting around in a second hand shop and found a picture of the darts team of the brewery my dad and other relatives worked at. It was for the season 1946-47, just when I was born. There on the photo was my uncle - I have contacted his son and he is going in to have a look . I got talking to the chap in the shop because he had lots of photo albums from way back - he said people buy them even if they do not know the subjects - apparently photos from the early 1900s up to the 50's are much sought after. I have a few albums with my late uncle's photos in, some of them written under, but my uncle never married and lived abroad a lot, so no one in the family knows anything about these people or wants the pictures. I am tempted to sell the albums and some other pictures I have - can't think they would ever be of use to me or interest to my son, who never met my uncle. Would you sell them, even tho they are family? I would not sell any of my immediate family or family members I knew well.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise that I had had 3 more replies. Hi Pat - Thank you for those lovely words:)) Hi Lindy - Thank you-I hope some will turn up for you too:)) Hi PP - Thank you:)) That's a really hard question. Of course, like you I would never sell any of the photos of my family. I wouldn't even sell the ones that I haven't a clue who they are because a week later someone would be bound to turn up and say that they may have known them:)) I don't think that I could even part with the ones of your uncle that had no family but if you feel absolutely sure that no-one in the family would be interested and that you could make good use of the money, then maybe your uncle would have been pleased to help. I didn't even realise that they would be worth anything until you told me. Good luck with whatever you decide. Chrissie xx