The Weston family of Alma Cottage, Coleswood Road
By Rosemary Ross
Dinah Castle lent her family albums to the Society in early 2012. To her frustration many of the photos were unidentified, but it is possible to put together a brief outline of the lives of her grandparents Bert and Annie Weston in Southdown from the early 1900s to the 1950s.
1. Harpenden First Eleven football team, with Bertie Weston in the middle of the front row - c. 1910
Di Castle's family albums
2. Postcard, with inscription on the back: Mrs A Woodwards, Coleswood Road, Harpenden, Herts, England. embossed: H Howards, 61 High Town, Luton - c 1915?
Di Castle's family albums
3. Postcard with Irma, Annie (Weston) and Ciss Tuffin. Embossed: H Howards, 61 High Town, Luton - c. 1915
4. Studio portrait of Albert Weston, c 1915/16
Di Castle's family albums
5. Embroidered card - To Annie from Bertie, 2 November 1916
Di Castle's family albums
6. Carte postale, with inscription on the back:Stammlager Prismes No. 48899, coy no. 438, EK4, Pte B Weston, 7th East Surrey Regt, Gefangenen Lager, Friedrichsfeld, Germany. Addressed to S Higginson, 80 Kings Road, Camden Town NW. Photo Arras, 1917
Di Castle's family albums
7. Text on postcard 6.
Di Castle's family albums
8. Bertie Weston (?), on a camp stool outside the side door of a ruined church. Inscription on the back: Arras Cathedral, 1917
Di Castle's family albums
9. Postcard - Annie Weston nee Tuffin, with Rene as a baby (later she married to Ken Munt)
Di Castle's family albums
10. Infants class at St John's School. Rene Weston on right-hand end of front row. c. 1920/21
Di Castle's family albums
11. Class photo, St John's School - Rene Weston on left of middle row; Ronald Tuffin, seated on left of front row - c. 1924/25
Di Castle's family albums
12. WI Choir, with Bertie Byard (organist at High St Methodist church). "Granny Weston" marked as third from right on back row; Rose Tuffin, standing 3rd from the left - c. 1950s
Di Castle's family albums
13. Mrs B Weston was one of the organisers of this WI Flower show in the late 1940s
Di Castle's family albums
14. Bertie Weston outside his grocer store at 102 Southdown Road, c.1950
Di Castle's family albums