Family photos etc.

[Click on the thumbnails to view larger photos]

 

My maternal grandmother, Maggie McGettigan (left) with two of her sisters, Donegal, Ireland, circa 1910s. This picture only survived as a paper negative, reversed in Photoshop...


My maternal grandfather, Peter, circa 1920.


My father in 1945, recovering from malaria in Malaya.


Peter and Frances Manson, my parents, snapped by a street photographer, Glasgow, late 1940s/early 1950s?


Two generations of Peter Manson: my father died in 1970 and this is the only photograph I have of us together.


Pencil drawing of me, made by my father in 1969 or 1970, on back of stationery from his painting and decorating business. Inverted caption at bottom says "P. MANSON -- Estimate (continued)"


My father, 1950s?


Me in 1970.


My mother's friend Eileen, me and my mother at the seaside, early 70s.


Me in the garden of my mother's friends in Lochgilphead, circa. 1970.


Me in the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, early 1970s, taken by my sister Carole on her Box Brownie.


Another photograph taken the same day.

A birthday card for my mother, 1974. Teach a child to read using the Initial Teaching Alphabet and you give it poor spelling, an interest in phonetics and a critical insight into the politics of the relationship between spoken and written languages.


Me in 1983 (I was 14) in Glasgow's Evening Times newspaper. Full page scanned for context.


My mother, August 2005.


My nephew Jon Scally and my sister Carole Scally, August 2005.


My nephew Jon, my mother and sister Carole, August 2006.


Me and Frankie Howerd at the SoundEye festival in Cork, 2007, photographed by Tom Raworth.

---

Return to Photo gallery

Return to