Ron, 1923
Ron, aged about 4, looking disgruntled
On the way to ????, North Wales, 1929
Ron: Bole Hills, Sheffield, around 1924
My father, me (Ron), Shirley. ?1929
Father and Mother, with her mother and sister-in-law Nellie. 1929.
My mother, with Shirley and me (Ron). Morecambe 1933
Mother, ?1939
Shirley, ?1939
My mother in Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta
With Robert Mencendez and his mother, Amboise, France, 1937
About 1939?
Ron and Shirley with Ulrich (my German penfriend)
At 104, Forres Rd, Sheffield. I designed and built the crazy pole fence, using trigonometry. More maths than art!
Ron in Lake District, ?1937
Ron, about 1939, at Grasmere. I was pretty fit then!
At graduation, Sheffield Univ., 1940
Pauline, my first love. April 1945. She married a businessman then better prepared to support her! Marrying her was never an option, and would have been a mistake.
Pauline
? 1945
Denmark, 1947
1949: Wedding
Ron, as Robin in Priestley's "Time and the Conways" play performed in Copenhagen Student's Union and repeated with British Council staff in London. 1951.
Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, early 1950s. This was the only time I ever got a chance to wear full evening dress with white tie. Brigitte is on the left, looking glamourous!
Ernest Kay, 1958: My Father
1958, Kaulbachstr
Ashleigh Road, 1959: then there were six
13 Ashleigh Road, 1961
1963: Ron, aged 43, Ham Street, Kent (My father's bungalow and garden)
1968: Munich (Ditmar's pictures)
Lindos, 1982 (photo by Barbara)
Ronald, Shirley, Ken
Shirley and Ken
[Coldwell family]
[Barbara's Wedding 1975]
UCCA, 1985
With the 3 millionth candidate at UCCA, 1985
OBE at Buckingham Palace, c. 1986
Members of the "Friends in Council" outside Cheltenham College. Headmaster of Dean Close - Christopher Turner - in middle of front row
1993. UCCA's new building, Fulton House, on site of former St James railway station. The ancient ceremony of "cutting the sod" was a piece of theatre for the press...
4 March 2000: 80th Birthday
60th Wedding Anniversary
Not Scrabble
[Twinkling eyes at 98]