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

Sep (with Jean & Michael?) at Powys House

New Elizabethan

Sep looks young here but he's sitting on a freshly-carved seat celebrating the new Queen, whose coronation was on June 2nd, 1953.

Merchant seaman on shore

"Just off Watch"

The third photo says "20 minutes after" on the back. I suppose the first two showed the sailors in their engine-room work clothes.

Peter?

On the back is a rubber-stamped date: "- SEP 1944"

So I imagine it is a photo of Peter Charlton who died on Feb 15th 1944. It is quite feasible that it was on a roll of film not developed till September.

Snapshot of Sep

This is from a small snapshot of Sep. I don't know what age or year. But he looked like this when I first knew him in 1953.