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Bride And Father-of-the-Bride Outside South Leith Parish Church 1959

1959
Bride And Father-of-the-Bride Outside South Leith Parish Church 1959

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Christine Noble, on the day of her marriage to Jim Sydserff, with her father, Jim Noble.

“Christine was a Leither, her father was a ‘cozy layer’ for the Leith Dock Commission (‘cozy’ was laying all the cobbles in the docks). Jim was a ‘Bow-Tow’ (a Newhavener).” – Maureen Sweeney (née Noble) [2019]

Donor number: 0369-016

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