Two Children At The Kitchen Table At 42 Dumbiedykes Road c.1954
1954
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Peter (aged seven) and Elizabeth (aged two) Bottomley.
“Taken in the kitchen. Elizabeth had fallen asleep on ‘the wee chair’ (it was over 100 years old) with her head on one of Mum’s Edinburgh chairs. Dresser in the background with our first electric radio, as opposed to a battery set.” – Jean Bell (née Bottomley)
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Donor number: 0056-033
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