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Presented on this page are a selection of photographs of the Williamson family from the Shallowford era; more photographs are shown on the main page for The Children of Shallowford. Some of them may already be familiar to readers of the first edition or of the 1978 new edition, which contained a different set of illustrations. Others, however, have never been seen before outside the family. They are (very) roughly in chronological order.
This photograph of Shallowford was used one year by the family as a Christmas card – note the neat garden and vegetable patch |
Baby John feeding himself - HW has written on the back of this photograph: 'Sergeant John Williamson, R.A.F., practising gliding in his pram in North Devon' |
HW and Loetitia with Windles and John – HW looking as though he is reading from his latest work |
Loetitia with John and baby Margaret |
A studio portrait on John, Margy and Windles |
HW with John and Windles |
An informal family group |
HW with John |
left to right: unknown, Windles, John, Loetitia, Margaret, unknown (perhaps the maid) |
Baby Robert |
Margaret |
Robbie, John, Rosie and Windles In the background is the gate to the Deer Park (Humpy Bridge can just be made out). The building on the right was demolished in the 1960s. |
HW has identified them underneath as 'Windles, John, Rosemary, Robbie, Margaret Shallowford area 1936' The 1978 edition adds that: 'Baby Richard was too small to join [them] for a ride in their uncle's car to South Molton' |
Haymaking up at the Field |
John, Windles and Margy on a tricycle to grow into! |
John at work on his book |
The caption in the 1978 edition reads: 'Baby Richard cries, watched benignly by Windles but with indifference by Robbie |
In the onion patch, probably taken by Ann Thomas |
Still in the onion patch Front row, Rosie and Richard; second row, Robbie and Margy; third row, John and Windles; at the back Annie Rawle and Ann Thomas |
The caption in the 1978 edition reads: 'John, Windles, Richard, Margaret and Robert at the long oak table for Christmas 1936 at Shallowford' The table was removed to the Norfolk Farm, and remains in the family. |