From our family archive

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Pictured in the 1950’s, (possibly Byker, Newcastle, but could also be somewhere in Sunderland). Dad and his dad are behind, but who are the others?	From the 1930s, dad and his sister circled. Were your family in the Byker Happy Juvenile Jazz band?
Me and my bro pictured c1964 in Shipley Street, Byker, Newcastle, but where are the others now?	Eden is the first name of my dad and grand-dad. But who is Rene?
An Australian connection: George and Marian Jobson, 1930’s, but what is the connection? |	Marian, perhaps 10-years older?
Mam, 2^nd from the right, Torquay, c1950. Is your mam, or grandmother, there?	Mam’s 21^st birthday, May 1950. Holding hands with Edward Joseph (Teddy) Hinge. Recognise any others?
Mam, center stage, The Grand Theatre, Byker, Newcastle, c1950. Were your parents or grandparents on stage?	Mam, on the right, in the production ‘Way Down South’ 1950. Any names of her colleagues?
Also from 1950, ‘Way Down South’, but who are these folk?	Not who this time, but where. Mam in the 1950’s: where is this park? |
From around the 1920’s, we believe the chap on the left is George Hopper, our step-uncle. But who are the others in this ukulele band?	From our family archive, but we have no idea who the happy couple are? Probably photographed in Newcastle c1940s Clearly the chap getting married, and here sitting upon a 1936 BSA motorbike with Newcastle reg.
This photo, dated 23 August 1930, is marked as ‘Audrey and Daisy’, which we think are names of the children. What is the connection to us?	This photo is, perhaps, from 1915, but the dress looks from an earlier period. We believe the mother to be Nellie Robinson. Any information would be most welcome!
Could this be John William Thompson, born 1895? He was the youngest brother of my granddad, and there are no records of him after the 1901 census. Intriguingly there is listed a John William Thompson on the passenger manifest for the White Star Dominion ship to Canada 29th May 1925.