A new year and a promise to get researching and blogging again. Starting with the simple fact that until recently I had never seen my own grandparents' wedding photograph, I will begin this next round of blogging with a posting dedicated to them.
This is Jane and Walter Sawyer's wedding day photo, December 27, 1930, on the steps of Holy Trinity Church in Brompton (located right beside the famous Brompton Oratory).
I looked up Holy Trinity and discovered that it is now an American-style evangelical Anglican church. It has a cafe in the crypt that serves up, among other delectables, "Smashed Avocado with Feta Crumble, Chili Flakes, Pine Nuts & Balsamic Glaze on Woodfire Sourdough" Yum. But possibly about as far from anything their generation could have imagined eating in a church crypt as you could get. Eating in a church crypt, in fact, would not have been imaginable. Different times. I love to see the juxtapositions.
Here is a copy of their wedding certificate signed on that day. Click on it to see a bigger image.
