After lunch today I was asked if I would be interested in seeing some family albums.   I found myself having the unexpected experience of seeing photographs of my father and his sister as children, my grandfather, who I never met and had no real idea of what he looked like, and my great grandfather, the Archbishop of Sydney, at my grandmother’s family house in Hertfordshire.   They show a prosperous, rather clannish Edwardian family circle, with a great deal of hunting and endless holidays in Scotland, just before the outbreak of the first world war.

My great grandfather:-

My grandparents’ wedding (my grandmother Muriel had met my grandfather in Sydney):-

My father and his sister as children:-

My aunt Margaret:-

My father:-