Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

Back in the mists of time.

Whilst we were down in God's own country, aka Yorkshire, I was able to make copies of some old family photographs. 
The main photograph, taken in 1908, shows my maternal grandmother Edith (whom I never met) with her young son Reuben in the doorway of her mother's house.
Reuben was to enjoy  a very adventurous life. After working in the local woollen mill he went off to India as a section manager in the New Edgerton mills in Dhariwal in the Punjab. The extra from the mid 1930s shows him, on the right,  enjoying a night out in Lahore with his colleagues. What the occasion and the significance of the uniform was we have no idea! But a  very far cry indeed from West Yorkshire!

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