In an attempt to try and become slightly more organised and regular in the frequency of my posts, I decided to try to create a series of shorter pieces, based around some of the family photographs we have in our possession.
This photograph is from the D'Annunzio side of the family. Sandra's grandmother and grandfather... in the days before marriage and children.
Laurence D'Annunzio and Agnes Saunderson (as she was then), enjoying a day out on the beach at New Brighton.
It doesn't look a particularly sunny day for sitting on the beach, but when you're courting I suppose a person doesn't really care. The fact that the couple are fully clothed in their Sunday best on the beach is also not unusual.
To show bare flesh on the beach was only for the brave in those days, and come on... this is the north-west of England, and not the Algarve after all!
No wonder they kept their coats on... all those seagulls and the chilly sea-breezes!
Brrrrrrrrrrr!
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