Tag: London

In Memorium

North London (Golders Green?)

My father would have been 78 last week. Here are 2 photos he scanned a few years ago. The first is his elementary school class, somewhere in North London, probably around 1941. I’m not even certain which boy he is, though I suspect the boy all the way on the right in the middle row. The next image is of his mother (center) and her sisters my great-aunts Ella (left, I think) and Nancy. I met Ella a couple of times, once in the early ’70s and again in the mid-’80s when I lived in London. I never met my grandmother, Annie, or Aunt Nancy.

probably North London

Blog Notes, continued

Well FedEx are taking their sweet time about delivering my monitor and images are backing up. Since the 17th of August (it’s now the evening of the 21st) their tracking site has listed my monitor as being “in transit.” From the 18th through the 20th a note said the next tracking update would be on the 20th but that didn’t happen. On the 21st that note disappeared but no other update occurred. Of course, the total time is still within the class of service I agreed to (speeding it up would have added $97) but as a Manhattanite I’ve been spoiled by years of getting Fed Ex shipments days earlier than forecast. In the meantime, here’s an old image from the archives…

Couldn’t resist this homage to the classic Ealing Studios Stanley Holloway film, Passport to Pimlico when we passed this tube station.

London, 2004