Sepia Saturday July 26

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Today's theme is:

238 : Signs, big signs, small signs, men with their hands in their pockets

Men with their hands in their pockets - My Dad in Dublin around 1950.

 In both photos he has a knitted vest underneath. The shirt style in the second photo is very different, it seems to be a tab collar (has a small tab that fastens the points together underneath the knot) since he has a tie pin on.

If it was a pin collar I would assume you wouldn't wear a tie pin.

In looking through 1950 photos online it appears most men wore hats. I don't think my Dad ever did.

I believe he is standing in the front door of his house on Mourne Rd in Drimnagh. My aunt continues to live in this house.

More men with their hands in their pockets.

Image and information below from A history of men's' suits.

The 1900s started with  a sack coat is officially defined as a 'man's hiplength coat with a straight back'. This is not to be confused with the lounge coat.

This is a famous photo of the heads of state at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919, wear morning dress and lounge suits. A morning dress a definite 'sir' suit. It's basically what overtook the frock suit in popularity for the formal daytime suit option.

Sepia Saturday - Feb 15

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215 : A postcard of Glasgow - a busy and crowded scene

This is around 1950 in Dublin Ireland. My Dad is in the top row third from the left. I have no idea what this group represents nor who anyone else is. It looks like a sunny summer day and they are all quite casually dressed for the times. In most photos of my Dad around this time he always had a tie on. 

The man on the far left top row is extremely tall. I also wonder about the little boy. Is this photo celebrating something for the couple who appear to be in the centre?

Sepia Saturday - Jan 4

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209 : By now, you don't need any suggestions from me. Search the image and find your own theme.

This would be sometime in the early 1950s outside Dublin, Ireland. I know nothing about it other than it is my mother's younger sister, Nellie. it looks like beach behind her. No idea who this car would belong to.

Sepia Saturday - Nov 9

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202 : Photographer, beach, camera, tripod, and even Corky The Cat - there is so much going on in Sepia Saturday 202 that it is a theme for all seasons.

It's been a long tough week and I almost forgot it was Saturday and time for Sepia!

I'm using beach as my theme this week. These were taken in the very early 1950s outside Dublin, Ireland. I am guessing Howth.

First up my Mom in the middle flanked by her baby brother and sister. They do look thin by today's standards, but trust me they were well fed.

Mom with a girlfriend.

Mom again.

Sepia Saturday

I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today.

This week's theme:
 

186. This fine figure of a woman is either ‘Boadecea or Mother England’ or possibly Britannia. You can choose; or go with armour, helmets, shields, fancy dress, pantomime, theatricals, warlike women or big sticks.

I am going with fancy dress, theatricals and pantomime  for this week.

 My parents often got dressed up and went to dances in Dublin in the early 1950s.

This photo is stamped on the back with Beegan's of Lower Abbey Street.

At the Dublin Archives I found a document within the Irish Theatre section I found a reference to a photo taken by the same photographer.

Ref. No. ITA/251/04/123

Document type: Photograph; monochrome

Date: c. 1960’s

Description: Full length photograph of Vernon Hayden and a female, attending a black tie event

Caption:

Photographer G. P Beegan, 10 Lower Abbey street, Dublin

Size 2 items.

The actor Vernon Hayden was a stalwart of Irish theatre from 1930’s until his death in 1990. Born c. 1914, in his early career Hayden toured with companies such as W.L Dobell, Richard Carrickford, and the famous pantomime company of Jim Johnson. In 1940, he joined O’D Productions, the company founded by Ireland’s most famous music hall performer Jimmy O’Dea and his writing partner Harry O’Donovan. For almost fifty years, Hayden played at the Gaiety theatre, in pantomimes and revues, frequently as the pantomime villain, which earned him the nickname of “the best baddie in the business”. He also worked as stage manager for O’D Productions on tours of Ireland, the UK, and most notably to Australia and New Zealand in 1961. His papers include correspondence, scripts, photographs, handbills, posters, production notes and theatre programs, and also relate to careers of other Irish actors such as Jimmy O’Dea, Maureen Potter and Milo O’Shea.
Vernon Hayden was born c. 1914 into a large theatrical family, which for years was located in Donaghmore, county Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His father was Will Hayden, and his mother had the stage name of Kitty Leroy and was over six feet in height. Both his parents were theatricals and troupers all their lives. They ran a touring company, which travelled Britain and Ireland playing repertory and variety.

Sepia Saturday - April 13

172 : Spring is just around the corner (we are told) and it is time to get your walking boots on, pack your haversack, and head out into the hills and valleys. There is nothing like a jolly hike (I am told).

My photo is from Ireland in the early 1950s where spring can come earlier than over here, but can also be cold. I have no idea if this photo of my mother lying on a picnic blanket was taken in the spring but I'm going to make that assumption. To get there my mother and whoever she was with, my father? would have ridden their bikes likely into the Dublin Mountains.