My Family Album

Share some of your favourite images and win £75 to spend on photo restoration. Here Gill Hulse, who lives near Bridport in Dorset, reveals pictures from the 19th and 20th century, including images of her Navy grandfather

Gill Hulse from Dorset shares some beloved family photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries

A portrait of courage

The armoured cruiser HMS Good Hope was sunk with the loss of all hands at the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile on 1 November 1914. This photograph of the ship’s officers was taken two weeks before the tragedy. My grandfather John Ellery Tizard is in the centre of the back row smoking a pipe.

Esther

This is my great grandmother Esther Meadows (née Norman). She was born in Bradninch in Devon in 1848 to a family of papermakers.

My great grandfather

Henry Samuel Meadows was the director of Watkins Tugs, which was based on the River Thames and ran ocean-going tugs.

Time for tea

My grandma Gertrude came to live with us in the 1970s.

Welsh holiday

John Ellery is seen here as a boy in Bridgend, in around 1884.

Teenage recruit

John Ellery joined the Royal Navy when he was only 18 years old.

A fine memorial

John Ellery’s next of kin received this scroll after the war ended.

A portrait with flowers

I love this photograph of my great grandmother Esther when she was a young woman – especially the elaborate hat.

Canine companions

Here is another photo of John Ellery, again smoking a pipe, with some of the crew of the HMS Good Hope, and a quartet of four-legged friends.

Edwardian wedding

My grandmother, Gertrude Mary Tyler or ‘Gertie’, worked as a milliner. My grandparents got married on 2 June 1909 at All Saints Church in Carshalton, Surrey. Here they are on their wedding day.

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