About

South Africa

I set out to photograph people I met in the Swellendam township of Railton during the summers of 2011-2019

India

Pushkar Camel Fair and Bundi Festival, and others

Projects

The Aldworth Millennium Tapestry being of particular interest, together with other photographs of Aldworth at that time.

Cranford House School, Moulsford. 1990 &1991.

Thomas & Co, some black & white photographs

Two albums of Wildlife, a record of wildlife in our small South African garden over a 10-year period (hence no Big Five!).

Family

THOMAS. I have kept an annual photo album since Sarah and I were married in 1961, initially sticking prints onto paper which I kept in a file. That gradually changed when digital photography became available at the beginning of the century until eventually my annual album became wholly digital. In 2020 I arranged for all the paper albums to be scanned and the subsequent Covid lockdown provided the ideal opportunity to collect everything together, and then with Angus’ help create this website.

In retirement my father, Clifford (Cliff) wrote the history of the local medical practice after which I persuaded him to write his own family history, both of which are included on the website. At the same time we gathered as many of the old family photographs as we could find, and identified as many individuals as we were able. As an aside, being the oldest child, I used to stay with the Thomas grandparents in Killay in the late1940s & early 1950s and remember many of my great aunts and uncles which my younger siblings do not.

Cardew

Sarah’s old family photos, mostly through the male line, up until the time we were married. Collected and meticulously noted by my father-in-law Jim Cardew who I had also persuaded to write his history.

TRAVEL and MOVIES

A miscellaneous collection of photos and videos as the mood dictated

Houses

A brief record of where we have lived during our married life.