I suppose it's inevitable that one's overwhelming memory of a person is as we last knew them so, for many of us, the memory of Gill's mother, Bea, is of a small, stooped old lady. One thing one did notice, however, is that she was always immaculately turned out and perhaps this was a window into the beauty she once was.
We have two photographs of Bea as a young woman, taken at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. We don't know who took the photographs but....
....this one was sent to a national newspaper by a male relative without Bea knowing. It was published on Wednesday August 29th, 1934 by the Daily Mail and titled 'Bathing Beauty Contest'. Bea was a very shy person so the fact that the article also give her name and address in Shropshire must have been very worrying for her.
We also have this picture of Bea, a Polyfoto taken, we think, before her two daughters were born when she was in her twenties.
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