tags: Family, Pictures
The Breeze Photo Archive
August 6th, 2005, by Rich.
My Grandparents took a lot of photos in their lifetime, and I think I’ve got most of them.
My grandfather had a darkroom and used to develop pictures himself; he’d be amazed to know what’s possible today with digital photography and the Internet.
One of the more surprising things about the oldest of the pictures is how small most of the prints are (typically only 3cm x 4.5cm) and happily, how well they scale up when scanned at very high resolution.
I’ve spent some time now carefully doing just that, and I’m about 50% of the way through the archive: so far I’ve scanned everything pre-1944. So there’s photos in and around Liverpool, Wallasey Gas Works, North Wales, the Ajay, camping trips, summer holidays etc.
Family members, please put in your requests for copies of the entire archive; possible delivery media include:
- A directly over the web if you have broadband
- On DVD
- On several CD’s
More senior family members may also be able to help prior to distribution by identifying some of the featured people who were nameless in the albums.
To whet your appetite, here’s some of what I have digitised already:
August 7th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
Oh Rich, that’s amazing. Me please - when you have them, I think I’d like CDs. Wow.
August 7th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
Brilliant!!
In the photo of the 4 bikes… I know that Dad & Mum are in the centre and the chap to Mum’s left is George Cookson, Aunty Marg’s futire husband
I believe the pic was taken at the rear of Pop’s hardware shop at Lloyds Corner in Wallasey, around 1936 or 7. I have a picture of Pop outside the front door of the shop, as does my cousin, John Breeze.
I’d love to have a CD record when they are done, please….otherwise there woulld be no room in my little grey box!
August 7th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Did you realise that the day you posted this would have been your grandparents’ 67th wedding anniversary?
Spooky or what?
August 10th, 2005 at 1:18 am
I think the fourth person with the bikes may have been Ronnie Moore. The three boys all met at the ‘8th Wallasey’ Scouts and there were loads of pics of them camping. Their favourite site was Llanrhyeder (?) in Mid Wales. My Uncles Jack Breeze and Len Breeze were also scouts, along with Dad, Harry Breeze
August 10th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
I think Teddy was mine. He survived well until eaten by Dumbo in about 1976 by which time he would have been in his mid thirties… far too young to meet his end, but Dumbo was very jealous of him and ensured that he was beyond repair.
The lovely pic of Mum was taken when she was 20
August 30th, 2005 at 7:34 am
I’d like ‘em please fella - I’ll take a broadband option!
August 30th, 2005 at 7:49 am
Jim, get a copy of Hello installed and I can stream ‘em straight to you.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
My name is Michelle Brownlea, and I live in Tasmania, Australia. I am writing to you regarding my family connection to Olive Breeze. The following is all the information I have regarding my grandmother. Would you be able to add any additional information?
My father Stephen Payne Tivy born 8 June 1936 (England).
Dad was adopted by Charles Payne Tivy and Olive Breeze. They ran some type of school/home for deaf children (?).
It is possible that this was Charles’ second marriage. Quoting the Dublin Papers newspaper, they were married August 5 1933 at St Mary’s Parish Church, Upton, by the Rev Canon R H Bellamy, B.A. “Charles was the second son of the late John Lawrence and Mrs Tivy, of Dublin, to Olive, fifth daughter of Richard and the late Mrs Breeze of Liverpool.”
Some of the people named in my dad’s album include:
Violet and Pink Stapleton
Agnes
Muriel
Aunt Fanny
Lady named Bray(?)
Dr O’Grady
J.B Tivy of H.M.S Trent
Jack Mitchell
Edith Crompton
A lady named Kate with a toddler named Verena
A child named Verena
Verena & Peter (aged 4 - 6)
Verena as a teenager with a young boy named Harry
Joy Tivy and Betty (surname unreadable)
A housekeeper named Christina Fitzpatrick.
Mrs Monk (Muriel’s Great Great Great Grandmother)
J.H. Peyton
A letter referring to “Ruth”, from Olive Breeze, addressed 131 London Road, Reading Berks, England, dated 1960.
This is everything I know about Dad and his connection to the Breeze family. I’m hoping that you may recognise some of the names.
Kind regards,
Michelle.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Sorry… no names here that I recognize…..
November 9th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Thank you for your reply Lesley.