Cyclists why not buy the latest anti theft device, a chain to chain your bike onto.

A field of hay the traditional way at The Museum of Welsh Life, four frames with the little old Fuji 6800 Zoom joined with Auto Stitch available here FREE.

Our 35th Wedding Anniversary picture Taken by Mrs Jones from Wales?

Thought we should prove Lottie was offered some birthday cake, before someone phones Childline.

Nicky made Sam a Special Chocolate birthday cake; we didn't put the 61 candles on it in case we set fire to the old chap.
Picture Andy Higby

Granddads cake was this big, and he didn't give any to me.

Lottie with David and Tabitha
Picture Helen Mattock

Paddy thinks he can still find more cream in the bottom.

Don’t forget the other Family sites
Sam’s Site

David’s Site

Tabitha’s Party site

Tabitha’s Dance Site

The neighbours have bought some chickens; I think they must have the "Simpson's book of chicken keeping" as they seem to be feeding them Donuts.

Sam checks his 61st birthday present from Andy and Nick,
A copy of 50 years of Playboy photography.

Pictures Richard Lee

7am 16th August proud dad David tired unshaven,
been up since 2am.
Now thinking gosh another mouth to feed, will I end up buying two ponies like my Father-in-Law?

Strange paint job spotted in Bath,
it even has a porthole in the roof?

Sam tries to look uninterested in an attempt to get
a cut in the price of his new wig.
Picture Laura Woods click here for her site.

Wendy's pictures of Tabitha and Lottie taken today.
Please note they are not really yellow, the pictures were taken under a yellow sunshade.

Rich, Pete, Andy and Dave the team that mucked
out Helens deep litter stable today.

Todays picture of Lottie Samantha

Name Change

David and Helen have decided to call the new baby

Lottie Samantha.

In memory of Sam

(Hang on I’m not dead yet)

Gosh what a mess, our old shop before we had new shop fittings, please note Wendy is still wearing socks.

Click here to see it with the new fittings

Taken about 1965

Wendy at Wellow signal box, I think must be late 60s
by the look of that Gonk necklace.
Nothing but the best for my girlfriend!

Gosh isn't science wonderful, we popped around to see the Mattock tribe tonight.
We were there two hours and didn't hear a peep out of baby Lottie Samantha.
Because she was in the Take Along Swing that rocks the baby for you by battery power.
When I think of the hours we spent nearly thirty years ago putting the baby in the car and driving around till she settled.
I think we would have paid a Kings Ransom for one of these.

More Pictures

More pictures of Lottie Samantha Mattock
at Davids Site

Lottie Samantha Mattock.

Lottie Samantha Mattock.

Tabitha checks Lottie Samantha Mattock.

Lottie Samantha Mattock.

Proud Grandma.

Proud Grandma.

The midwifery team leave.

It's a Girl born 6.26am 7lb 11 oz

2am call, the new baby on the way. Wendy sleeping at the house with Tabitha till she wakes then I’m going to collect them.

Sam

Midwife weighs Helen, 28 years ago though it doesn't seem very long.
And now she's expecting our second granddaughter very soon.

Evie visited today, but found this plastic banana hard going!

Old Sign in Stuart Place, Jared E. Dixon was the Bath Town Clerk from 1948 to 1966.
And though a £2 fine seems small, unlike today they actually enforced it.
They fined my father for riding his newsagent's carrier bike in the Abbey Church Yard at 6am.

Sam's Motorbike from 1964, when a Honda 125 twin cost £130.
I don't think you can buy a decent push-bike for that now.

The Great Britain comes home under the suspension bridge in 1970.

Kay from Park pets Moorland Road greets a new customer.

This rat-catcher must have caught a few
to spend this much on advertising.

On the rocks

In 1967 while we were on holiday in Cornwall, The Tanker Hemsley ran aground below Padstow.
The farmer who owned the field at the top of the cliff charged the nosy visitors like us to park in his field.
Which just shows that one mans disaster is another mans good fortune.

The leaking oil caused damage all down the coast

Here's Bath in the mid 60s I think, looking down Union Street to Stall Street, note Colmers Store on the right, it was all the shops from W.H.Smith up.
They had started to close Stall Street but not put the pavement down yet.
And you can see that Cheap Street was one-way in the same direction, but Westgate Street was reversed and all the traffic went up Union Street.
Also note the fountain in Stall Street that has moved to Terrace Walk and Dixons was Boots.

Nicky checks before entering the

"When's Helen baby coming sweepstake".

Don’t forget the other Family sites
Sam’s Site

David’s Site

Tabitha’s Party site

Tabitha’s Dance Site

Chase me Grandad

Picture Helen Mattock

Sam and Tabitha by Helen

Old Picture of building work on the Churchill bridge.

This is a butchers I photographed at the market in Oxford about 10 years ago.
I wonder if are they hanging turkeys, boar and cattle outside now.

Here are a couple of unusual things from the 60's.
A hovercraft lands on Porth Beach near Newquay to refuel.
And a TV cameraman films it, no video then.