This is Hazel
She was my second cousin ( I think) and was a dear friend of my mother and a favourite aunt to my elder sister
The photo has a sweetness about it
Especially as Hazel died tragically giving birth to a daughter only a few months before I was born
I just wanted to memorialise it
It’s also been a baking day today
I’m made two boiled fruit cakes for the show , one slightly bigger than the other
I may enter both
It’s singing In The Rain at the Village Cinema Club later
She looks like someone who could have a lot of fun. Lovely picture.
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DeleteThat is such a lovely photo. She is so pretty. I can see the family resemblance.
ReplyDeleteShe certainly looks like my great niece Ellie
DeleteWhat an awful way to go. If you really want to memorialise Hazel, you need a block of marble, a chisel and a hammer.
ReplyDeleteShe certainly has a face that would look good as a bust
DeleteA beutiful photograph of it's period, and of a very swet young girl, before life grabbed her by the throat. Sadly, so many young lives were lost in the same ay, and these family tragedies take on a new importance as we age. And what an evocative name of the era, too! So few girls are named Hazel these days. Lovely to see her remembered.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough I have a good friend called hazel , who now lives in Manchester, she grew up in Trelawnyd
DeleteLovely photo. Definitely worth holding on to.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it was an age of posing for your face shot lol
DeleteShe does look a gentle sweetie. Sad
ReplyDeleteI saw ma Manley again, she sends her love
DeleteWhat a lovely memento of her. Worth framing perhaps? xx
ReplyDeleteYes , I agree
DeleteA beautiful photo and a sad story.
ReplyDeleteYes, I spoke to her daughter this morning , she is entering the flower show
DeleteHazel looks a bit cheeky.
ReplyDeleteShe was dressed as a cabbage
DeleteDo you ever read Studs Terkel? Your writing reminds me of his. Lovely stories, simply told, "oral histories" I believe he called them. (And he won a Pulitzer, so take this as a compliment!)
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like a fascinating person and I’m very flattered
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A charming photo! So sad that she died young.
ReplyDeleteYes, poignant and sad,
DeleteBeing remembered, is immortality.
ReplyDeleteYou could plant Hazel her namesake tree near the Village pond - squirrels would love it x 🌱
ReplyDeleteI have some walnut trees
DeleteIsn't she pretty!
ReplyDeleteShe is the spitting image of Ellie my great niece
DeleteWhat a sweet picture of your aunt Hazel. I like Flis' suggestion.
ReplyDeleteGoing Gently is my journal
DeleteIt’s fitting the photo is here
What about Hazel’s daughter?What happened to her.Lovely photo.
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Her name is carol , she lives 2 miles north of Trelawnyd
DeleteSo sad, she looked like a trend setter.
ReplyDeleteYour cakes look marvelous, and I just bet they taste delicious.
Jo
I think she was dressed as a cabbage if all things
DeleteYour mother must have been terrified, knowing that she was going to have to deliver twins soon after her friends death.
ReplyDeleteShe must have been yes, and didn’t know she was having twins
DeleteThat must have been a shock when the pair of you arrived.
DeleteThe start of her days of anxiety me thinks
DeleteHazel looks like a charming, selightful woman who enjoyed fun. Her early death was tragic and it isso sad that her daughter never knew her.
ReplyDeleteLovely cakes!
Enjoy Singing in the Rain. SI so remember the amazing dancing!
Hot (36*C) and humid here.
The new oven is to be installed today!!
Hugs!
Pretty little girl
ReplyDeleteThis blog moved me
It reminded me of relatives gone
Keith x
Hazel is angelic looking. Her life was taken far to early. Your cakes look terrific.
ReplyDeleteHazel looks very lively, and very pretty too. Your chins have a similarity... Unfortunately death in childbirth was all too common 'beck then'. It must have made for a difficult childhood for Carol? Your fruitcakes look splendid. Boiled fruit cake is one of my standbys. Mine improved immeasurably when I started being patient and letting the fruit cool almost completely before I added the other ingredients. Do you wait? Or just get on with it?
ReplyDeleteIt's always a tragedy when a young mother dies.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought death in childbirth should have been quite unusual by the 1960s?
You often mention 'boiled' cake; I really must look-up the recipe.
ReplyDeleteCro, they're easy, often all the ingredients can be mixed in the same pot, and they're delicious!
DeleteSuch sweetness in that photo! How sad to lose her like that.
ReplyDeleteBoiled cake is a standby for me as it's so much easier if busy. Delicious too! I used to make one for the family and one for my dad.
I want to be singing in the rain and then indulge in your fruitcake. The photo of Hazel is stunning.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful photo of a beautiful girl. So many lives were lost in childbirth years ago.
ReplyDeleteWe've just been going through old photos, the black and white ones are very evocative aren't they. I've just framed a lovely one of me and my parents taken on the day of my christening. It couldn't stay in the drawer.
What a great photo! But if she was an aunt to your elder sister, wouldn't she also be your aunt?
ReplyDeleteI’m still trying to work this one out
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