This is me!
In the summer of 1962, on the swing in our back yard/garden. I used to spend hours on this swing. My mum always put bows in my rather unruly hair. My shoes are school shoes, probably the only shoes I owned . Though sometimes I got hand me downs from my older girl cousins.
In the background is the pram, my then youngest sister( child #5) who was born in May 1962 was probably sleeping in the pram. Behind the pram is a building that was referred to as 'the garage', but there was never a car in it, I think it was originally a barn from the time when the property was part of the farm that was behind our garden. It was dark, and full of cobwebs and had a crumbling concrete floor. I think my dad used it as a workshop, before he built The Shed! It was about 16 x 16 feet, it was built as a place to store the push lawnmower, the older three kids I was child #2 used to keep buckets of frog spawn in it, and inevitably after the tadpoles had turned into tiny frogs someone would knock one of the buckets over and there would be tiny frogs everywhere.
On the left you can see the family home, it was originally a bungalow, but when the family got too big, an upstairs was added. Hanging on the washing line are about a dozen white terry cloth nappies (diapers) and what looks like a ladder, which was probably there so my mum could reach the washing line.
