HMS Glory / HMS Victory c. 1905? Reposting.

REPOSTING MESSAGE UNDER NEW TITLE hoping someone in the family might pick
this info up!

joe.wakefield...

Forty years ago I was given a beautiful birthday present, an old photo
album. It was half full of a family's photos and I somehow felt I couldn't
just pull them out and chuck them. Yesterday I reckoned it was time to fill
it up with my own family photos and hoped, as I was easing the pictures out
of their slots, that one of them at least would have a name or some details
written on the back. I now have a problem. What do I do with fifteen
unmarked photos? It goes against the grain to throw them in the bin and I
can't see that they are of interest to anyone outside the album's family.
I'd date them all as roughly 1890-1910. Just for the record, I'll list
below what information I've gleaned (with photographers' names), but
meanwhile I thought it might be worth passing on a useful lesson: LABEL YOUR
OLD PHOTOS, or at least pencil details on the back for future generations.
A photo of a face has little value if no-one knows who it is.

The family seems to have come from the south coast of England somewhere -
the women's photos/cards/cartes de visite have the photographer's name:
A E Harding, Portsmouth; Kent & Lacey, Eastbourne; two are C Hawkins and H
Edwards, Brighton; Lionel Bertram, Landport (this sailor's cap reads "HMS
Victory").

The rest are of sailors in the Far East:
Two teenage sailors, Yong Seng, Hongkong: three photos of sailors, Lai Sin &
Co, Wei-Hai-Wei; three more by A King photographers, Hong Kong - one
sailor's cap shows "HMS Glory" and another shows a more elderly sailor,
posher outfit, maybe a captain, and on the door by his side is written
"Cyprian A G Bridge 1903". What this refers to I've no idea.

joe.wakefield...

This site is a good source for information. This links to history (and
photos of ship and crew) of HMS Glory.

Hugh Watkins...

if you have time scan them all and put them on the web

use the freespace at rootsweb

but all you can find about the families in a gedcom on world connect and
link it to the "home page"

some of my family photos turned up in Australia because my great aunt
gave them to her grand child

my friend Hedvig from Denmark with her similar sites also found photos
from Latvia in Australia by an email contact
a relative happened to be visiting OZ and this orphan family album was
collected im Oz and passed by Hedvig to relatives in Denmark
'

one of the named people's descendants may know who the others are

Hugh W

joe.wakefield...

AG Bridge was a Commander in Chief of Australian Naval Station. See