Saturday, April 17, 2010

Saturday shoes - Nanny's

This is my grandmother as a child. Those shoes look very chunky. Brogues like these seem to have been the style at the time.This photo was printed on a post card. I can read the word Dublin in the corner but can't read the name of the photographer. The numbers below appear to be 105.
I am googling to see what i can find out. In doing so I came across a fantastic Irish blogger who collects old photos of Irish life.
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4 comments:

  1. Katy ~April 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    What a terrific photo. My grandmother's mother died when my grandmother was 6 mos old. She has a school picture of perhaps 20 or so children, all the little girls are in the front row. One of them would be my great grandmother, but my grandmother never knew her mother's face, and her father couldn't/wouldn't help her and there was no other family as they were all in Ireland. As it was, my grandmother studied the faces very slowly and I chose one that I thought looked like my grandmother, and she said, "That's the one I've always thought was my mother too...." How wonderful to have a picture like this!

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  2. Jackie McGuinnessApril 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    Thanks, Katy for dropping by! Glad to see you're feeling better.
    Did you check out the link I had to old photos from Ireland?

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  3. Katy ~April 24, 2010 at 7:34 PM

    I just visited that blog. Aren't those photos great? I loved the bride. Looks like she belongs in a painting. And of course, those 2 sweet little girls in their communion dresses, brides of Christ.

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  4. Jackie McGuinnessApril 25, 2010 at 8:36 AM

    Egads had forgotten that expression brides of Christ! Did you see the movie Doubt? Reminded me of growing up Irish Catholic in Montreal. Didn't have nuns in grade school but did have when I got to high school.

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