Photographs 1971

Photographs taken by Frank J. Gent, 1970–1

 Beating the Bounds of the Parish of Dowland, June 1970

16 Manley Road, Whalley Range, Manchester

My Graduation Dinner at The George, Hatherleigh, July 1971

16 Manley Road

My early photographs taken in 1963

I had an Ilford camera with which I took these photographs. They were all glued into a small album, but the album was taken by my sister, and I only retrieved the remnants after my father's death.

Manchester

16, Manley Road, Whalley Range

This was taken in the bitterly cold winter of 1962–1963. Dana Gent and Louise Berry in the back garden at number 18

Dana Gent, around her sixth birthday

Rina admiring a snowman in the back garden at number 16

Lola with the snowman

Liliana Schiff returning from a shopping trip. To the left can be seen the gates that were later stolen, and on the right is the conical holly bush

Icicles on the Caroline Testout climbing rose over the front door

Lola in the front room after a wash and clip

Dennis Gent with his first vehicle, a Ford Thames van

Dana Gent

Dana Gent next to a giant snowman, built around and over the Victorian cast iron tazza, at the entrance to the paint cellar, a space excavated under the dining room by my grandfather

 Manchester Whit Walks

The Friday Catholic Whit Walks pass from Albert Square behind the Central Library

Members of Manchester's Polish community

House sparrows on the lawn

Dana with Lola

Rina and Dana

 Mons Hall, Dowland, Devon

The reflection of the front room at Mons Hall in the circular mirror that now hangs above my desk as I type this. On the wall can be seen the crossed sword and scabbard that may once have belonged to my great great great grandfather John gent of Spen Green in Cheshire

The fish pond at Mons Hall created by my uncle Ralph Gent

Dowland Mill

The best room at my aunt Lyn's home. The fine sideboard was purchased at a house auction in Manley Road, Manchester in about 1955, and restored by Lyn

The fireplace in the best room

My cousins Grace and Helen Baker

The view from the top of Berry Hill looking towards Iddesleigh

The stream below the paddock at Mons Hall

Nesting swallows above the shippen

A Friesian heifer

Laddie, the extremely bad-tempered and aggressive sheep dog

A running heifer in the field across the road known as Pool Mead or Pool Maid. On the right is the remnant of the former mill pond for Dowland Mill

A parchment charter dating from 1658 which is now in my possession

Walking across the Brimblecombe fields towards the River Torridge this is the view towards Iddesleigh

Mons Hall from the Barn Field on Whitemoor, with Berry behind. Berry Wood has just been chopped down.

One of the summer charabanc trips, this time to Babbacombe

Clovelly

Exeter Cathedral with the later demolished church of St Mary Major

The East window of the cathedral

Valerie at Westward Ho!

Rina at Westward Ho!

Helen Baker

Grace Baker at the River Torridge

Helen and Grace gather hay next to the Torridge

Piglets at Mons Hall

A slow worm

Blackbird nestlings

The shippen at Mons Hall with Laddie and the old cat

Ralph's fantail doves

Piglets in the sty at Mons Hall, under the same roof as us. Recently this has returned to accommodation for humans