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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: Wivenhoe High Street - photograph
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:53:21 +0100
References: <020301c67e5f$2d5a66d0$c96b9fd4@DELIA>


Found him. In the 1933 Wivenhoe Directory, Louis Slaughter, Shop keeper in
the High Street, so he may have been George's son - and could have been
publishing photos and postcards from say 1910s onwards from the look of it,
though not advertising this in the directories.

Colleen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Delia Gleave" <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>


> Some of the children on this "official" postcard by Louis SLAUGHTER of
> High Street, Wivenhoe, look suspiciously like the offspring of Edward and
> Edith [TOSBELL] JONES of "Bryngwyn".
>
> Probable date is - er - the schoolgirls [possible ages 10-13] are wearing
> thick black stockings and boots and have knee-length skirts. the tallest
> is wearing a pale panama-style school [?] hat.
>
> No motor vehicles but a distant cyclist, just too distant to examine his
> steed, heads towards us.
>
> Can Colleen help us with Louis SLAUGHTER's professional time-span,
> perhaps?
>
> Delia
>
>
>
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