A sad tale.

Another old family photograph taken in 1906. Mrs T's Grandfather and Grandmother with their son John. As an adult John emigrated to America and set up an engineering company in California. His claim to fame is that his company manufactured some of the components of the parachute system used in the return to earth of the first moon mission.  

John's younger brother Gilbert was to become a baker by trade and this being a reserved occupation he was forbidden to join the armed forces when WW2  broke out. However he didn't survive the war. In 1940 Gilbert was baking in his home town of Fraserburgh in NE Scotland. On November 5th a German bomber attacked the town and one of the bombs landed on the Commercial Bar where a darts competition was being held. The bomb killed 34 people and injured 52. Gilbert was one of the dead. I have blipped a photograph of Gilbert on a previous occasion. 

The extra is  two women in their work clothes. We don't know who they were  but they were doubtless members of the Peterhead fishing community. The photograph probably dates from the 1920s. The original was black and white and I have added the colour.