Treasured Possessions

My wife adored her grandmother. Her parents lived with her grandparents in Glasgow after the War until the early fifties. Her parents moved to Aberdeen, her grandfather died and her grandmother joined them a year later . She died when my wife was eighteen in 1967. My wife was heartbroken.

Her grandmother was born in 1889, the third of seven children born between 1885 and 1896. One brother died at the age of two in 1896. Her father died aged 37 in January 1900 and her mother four months later in April. The six children went to live with three maiden aunts, all of whom were dressmakers. Her grandmother became a dressmaker and was highly skilled. She was married in 1914. She stitched this table cloth and this was her wedding china. We have had the cloth and the china for the last 30 years or so and it emerged from the recesses of a cupboard when we renewed our dining room furniture. We have decided to make occasional use of the china. It seems appropriate to show it at its centenary.