My Family Album
Will Mundy introduces some of his relations, including a great great grandfather who owned a timber merchant
Share your favourite images and win £75 to spend on photo restoration. Here Will Mundy from Abingdon in Oxfordshire introduces some of his relations, including a great great grandfather who owned a timber merchant
William Johnson
My great great grandfather’s first car was a Morris Cowley tourer.
Timber merchant
My great great grandfather Albert had a timber merchant business in Cowley.
Harold Organ
In this photo my great grandfather is shown standing on the right.
Inside the timber merchant’s yard
I only have a few photographs of the business in Cowley (AT Organ &
Sons). While Albert managed the firm, which made veneered dashboards for Morris Motors, my great great grandmother Sarah Ann ran the family’s greengrocer’s shop. Their son
Harold is on the left.
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My grandmother as a young girl
Here is Jean Mundy (née Organ) on a family day out with my great great grandparents William (at the wheel) and Edith Annie Johnson.
The timber merchant’s Model T
Henry Ford’s Model T was the first mass-produced and affordable motor car, and Albert’s company owned a Model T Ford truck.
Visiting the Tyndale Monument
This photo from North Nibley, Gloucestershire, shows William and Albert sitting next to each other on the left of the photograph.
William with his horse and cart
My great great grandfather was a greengrocer too. Elsie, my great grandmother, helped sell the produce. This is how she met Harold.
VE Day in Cowley
This poignant image shows residents of Glanville Road in Cowley, where Harold and Elsie lived after they got married, celebrating the news of the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945.