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My grandmother and her Album

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Her name was Christina Mary, but known to her children as "Gan". (My grandfather was Harrison Benn who died in July 1921. He owned woollen mills in Clayton, Yorkshire (near Bradford) and also in America.  See My Grandfather Harrison Benn page.

My mother and I visited Gan during school holidays and  I remember her as an old lady sitting in her chair in the music room at Holcombe Hall in the village of Holcombe, Devon between Teignmouth and Dawlish in the county of Devon.  She was always dressed in black garments, with a large amethyst cross on a chain round her neck when I was brought in to her at tea time in the music room. This room had a beautiful pipe organ which fascinated me, but probably had not been played after his death. The organ went to a bombed out church in Bradford, Yorkshire, after  WW2 ended. 

There was also a serpent, an ancestor of the modern tuba, hanging on a wall which I was not allowed to touch.

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​I would like to record the pages from her album here. I am scanning the pages one at a time, so it will be some time before they are completed.

The album measures 9 inches by 7 inches and contains 86 pages. It is bound in soft leather with rounded corners and the pages are gilt edged. The first date recorded is June 21st, 1891.
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  • About
  • Blog
  • Early Days
  • School Days
  • Arriving in Ceylon
  • Motor Racing
  • Flying
    • Flying in the Persian Gulf
    • Some notes on flying the B727 in the simulator
  • Amateur Radio
    • Some of my radios (slideshow)
    • My efforts with the Rockall Expedition of 1965
  • Sailing
    • Tradewinds to Trinidad
    • Christmas Letter from Barbados 1998
    • The "Te Vega"
    • In the wake of Christopher Columbus and Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Double Headed Shot Keys
    • Bahamas Trip April 2002
    • Log of last Atlantic crossing in 2006
    • A Catalogue of Winds
    • Picture Gallery of "Lungta" in Norway
    • Lungta in Norway
    • "Lungta" going strong in Norway 2016 >
      • Lungta in the Arctic 2017
    • How to start a Seagull outboard Motor
  • My Family
    • My Aunt Christine
    • My Grandmother "Gan" >
      • Holcombe Hall
    • My Grandfather Harrison Benn
  • Computers I have known
  • Some Quotations
  • Some photographs
    • Aunt Paddy's 90th Birthday Luncheon
    • St. Anne's Church Reception 27th April 2014
    • Family lunch at No.19 on 27th April 2014
    • Isle of Wight
  • Contact Form