What I had forgotten in that post was that my mother's album contains a photograph of the reception tea party at the McElderry's house....
....which some forty people attended. The group on the left-hand table are the same as appear in the wedding photograph, namely....
Now that I have these people right, I would love to know who the other 30+ people were. In her writings, my mother mentions so many people she knew in Zanzibar, and this picture will include some of her and my father's closest friends. Further, as a keen letter-writer, she kept in touch with many of her Zanzibar friends over the years, both in East Africa and in the UK, so I might even have met some of them.
My thanks to Mark Gimson, one of the McElderrys' grandsons, for tidying up the third photo.
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