...the past continues to haunt the future...as it should.....

Early 20's in Scotland......bloke fourth from the left is my Scottish grandfather  Gill. 

Spitfire...like my Dad flew.



Velebit Section, Templeton Ranch, Banket, Zimbabwe.
Road leading in from the left took you past the water reservoir and onto the house that sat between two kopies the other fork took you to the tobacco barns and grading sheds. The building between the barns and the house was where the tractors were kept. The picture must have been taken by my father after he left farming, took his private pilots licence and started crop spraying. Velebit was the last farm that he worked on as a manager. 

Dad with the typical Zimbabwean colouring....tanned head and lower arms  and the rest.......pale. On the Estoril beach, Beira, Mozambique.

South African pilots in UK during WW2

Granddad and Granny Rogers, Harare Zimbabwe...1930's?

Me...1982/3 Brixton Hill





Steve, Isolde and Em...Devon....late 80's



Scotland..early 20's with Mom and Aunty Anne with their backs to the camera.


Dad's wartime comrades.

...more of Dad's comrades.

Anne, possibly five or six years old.

Steve, Me with David roaring in from the distant right

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