This page contains links to family photographs of Derbyshires and Knowleses, including me, from 1986 onwards. Excluded are photographs of my wife and our kids. They are in the "Family Album" web pages.
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My mother suffered a stroke in 1987. It didn't affect her mind, but she lost some muscle control on her left side. After hospitalization at St. Edmund's and a physical therapy spell at Ecton Brook, she went home to 62 Friars Avenue, where this was taken in, I'd guess, 1988. |
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In mid-1990 Mum decided she could no longer look after herself and the house, so she moved to Lister House, an old folks' home in Kingsthorpe. The place was owned and run by an ex-nurse, Peggy Lister. This is Peggy with Mum in the garden at Lister House, summer 1991. |
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When Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream was published to good reviews, Mum called the Northampton newspaper. They ran a brief story, with this picture. |
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A picture of Mum taken in her room at Lister House by one of the staff and enclosed in a letter to me dated Feb. 23, 1997. |
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The last picture I have of Mum, taken in the sunroom at Lister House, Easter 1997. I fancy she is waving goodbye. "You don't miss your water till the well runs dry. / You don't miss your loving Momma till you hear her last goodbye." Too true. |
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Tessa and her (then) two children, Kesta and Tully, got themselves in The Guardian, an English national daily newspaper, in the summer of 1999, as part of some series of articles about stay-at-home mothers. |
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Fiona and Steve Grey, with their children Natalie and Edward, in the mid-2000s. Fiona was Fiona Lambert, daughter of Beryl Lambert, formerly Beryl Buckley, daughter of Nell Buckley, formerly Nell Knowles, my mother's older sister. Fiona is, in other words, my first cousin once removed. |
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My brother Noel always marches in the Remembrance Day parade, held every year on November 11 in London. This was taken at the 2006 parade. Noel is at the left, with two old comrades. |
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My nephew Marcus Moore got married near our home town, Northampton, on March 29, 2008. I wrote up the event for my May 5 "Straggler" column in National Review. Here are Marcus and Nicola, groom and bride. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. Here is Marcus with his son Jack, aged I think 4. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. My sister Judith with Phil, her husband. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. My niece Tessa with Kezzie, her eldest, aged 12. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. Tessa's husband Paul McLeish with their three boys: Tully at back, Wolfie and Caden in front. Tully is 10, Caden 7, Wolfie 4. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. My sister Judith and brother Noel. |
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Also taken at Marcus' wedding. A McLeish (my niece Tessa), a Moore (my sister Judith), and a Derbyshire (my nephew Robert, Noel's older boy). |
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T-t-talkin' 'bout my g-generation … Here is my generation of Derbyshires: My sister Judith, me, my brother Noel. Also taken at Marcus' wedding. |
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My aunt Muriel, 91 years old and going strong. This and the next two are from a visit I paid on March 30, the day after Marcus' wedding. |
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Uncle Fred Littlehales. |
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The house Muriel and Fred have lived in for as long as I can remember: 31 Prestbury Road, in the Aston district of Birmingham. |
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This was taken by Tessa during her visit to England in August 2008. Auntie Mu is 91 at this point, Uncle Fred 87. |
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My brother and some other old soldiers, refusing to fade away. This was taken at the Armistice Day service in London, actually November 9, 2008. |
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My cousin-once-removed Lindsay Sirignano is expecting a baby in the spring of 2009. The scans tell them it will be a
little girl, and they have provisionally named her Lily. Here I am at the baby shower on February 21st, with Lindsay and Lily. (Lindsay's maternal grandfather was my mother's brother Jack.) |