Mother and daughter by Denzil

Denzil

Mother and daughter by

This is a photo of my mother and me, taken in about 1960, presumably by my stepfather, in Cornwall on our summer holidays. I was 10 or so when this was taken, my mother about 35. We were on a ferry across (I think) the Helford River.

My mother died 3 years ago and I’m still going through her things … she was the world’s most enthusiastic, and possibly worst, photographer, so it is good to find one of us together, instead of one of me taken by her, with my head chopped off, or completely out of focus …

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mother, ferry, childhood, cornwall, 1960s, denzil

Comments

  • lightsmith
    lightsmithover 2 years ago

    You’re cute. And she was a mischievious look :)

  • Thanks for the ‘cute’!!! She was a wild woman, my mother … an astonishing life …

    – Denzil

  • Barb Leopold
    Barb Leopoldover 2 years ago

    Oh what a pair….. the look of mischief in mum’s eyes, your cheeky smile…..how wonderful!! Lovely to see this old image Denzil……

  • Thanks Barb! She was a handful … but I’m glad I can show her off on RB – she was a beauty in a special way …

    – Denzil

  • TubularBelle
    TubularBelleover 2 years ago

    Your Mum looks like a Goddess of the Screen. She could have been a Movie Star. Oh do tell some stories.

  • Goodness! I knew she was good looking, but that’s an amazing comment! The stories … ah, perhaps not for a public forum … but when we have our Ferret Meeting, who knows!
    Thanks for this lovely comment, I really appreciate it :)

    – Denzil

  • TubularBelle
    TubularBelleover 2 years ago

    Is it Katherine Hepburn she reminds me of?

  • Maybe … she reminded me of someone else whose name I now can’t remember …I ’ll follow it up!

    – Denzil

  • TubularBelle
    TubularBelleover 2 years ago

    I got it! It’s Lauren Bacall.

  • Wow! She’d be very happy!!!

    – Denzil

  • jazzdevil
    jazzdevilabout 2 years ago

    Yes… a cross between Katherine and Lauren for sure!

  • Thank you so much – a Mother’s Day special (well, almost… I’m sure it was still Mother’s Day somewhere!!)

    – Denzil