Early History

I scanned these while doing some work for someone else. The many faces of Val (fortunately none of them too recent!)

My debut on camera was when I was 3 months old.

I think this was taken about a month later. It's my favourite picture of me.

This is me aged about 9 with my mum and dad and my big sister, in the back garden of the house where I was born. It was later pulled down to build modern flats.

In July 1966 I went on a caravan holiday to Hastings with my aunt and uncle. My uncle and I are not looking too happy - the World Cup was on. We came home the day of the final, missing England's glory.



















These photo booth pictures cover my student years, though the last one was actually taken for a passport when I was 27. I did go through some hairstyles!

My wedding day in 1973. I was a mere 20 years old and still a student.

This picture of me with my mum and cousin George (the cousin who has cancer) was taken at the Christening of my cousin June's granddaughters. It was taken in the early 1990s.