Just before leaving England 29th June 2010

There would have been more stand-up photos but someone had her finger half over the flash.

At Cliveden 28th June 2010

At the Crown pub in Penn 28th June 2010

After dinner at the pub we went for a walk in the countryside behind it. There is a patch of nettles behind a field where every year peacock butterfly caterpillars are to be found munching away. This is one.

6th June 2010

At the shoe-shop

Sep's sister Ada and their mother.

The sailor-man

Sep 1937

Tarzan at Carisbrooke Castle

Tarzan at Carisbrooke Castle is written on the back - in Sep's own handwriting.

1929: Sep becomes a merchant seaman

Since almost all the photos of Sep in the Merchant Navy belong to 1929, I'm guessing that that is the year he joined the service, especially as some seem to have been sent to his mother.

FALMOUTH 1929 (Sep's writing)

FALMOUTH 1929 (Sep's writing)

This version was taken from the negative, which had gone darker over time.


Seppy 1929 (a young handwriting, perhaps his sister Ada or Cissie)

Seppy (I'm guessing his mother's writing) Nov 1929 (Sep's writing)

RED SEA 1929 (Sep's writing)

ENGINEERS M.V. ATHELPRINCE Java 1929

MY WATCH S/S PEEBLES 1930

Fatherhood

The man in the raincoat

Mid nineteen-fifties.

Is this Michael?

Home Guard duty

During the Second World War, Sep was working at Saunders-Roe (Saro) in East Cowes. Here is a roster showing that for a while he was in charge of no. 3 Section. The pencilled amendments are in his handwriting.

Trade Union cards

Amongst the items are two union cards, dated 1949 and 1953. This is scanned from one of them.

A Saunders-Roe seaplane

As well as working at the aircraft company at East Cowes, Sep was always very interested in planes. He continued to visit the Farnborough Air Show every year he could.

Undated passport photo

With birthday wishes 1936

Sep & friends

On the back is pencilled: "Sunny days", Cowes.

Sep in front of Powys House?

Nothing is written on the back of this photo.

Sep's mother & group

On the back it says "Edie's Husband on the outside" in Sep's handwriting.

Sep's mother