| Birks - Lamb
Reunion 13 August 2011 |
Last updated 14 October
2011 |
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On 30 August 1911
Hugh
Halliford Birks married
Emily Douglas Lamb,
daughter of
Henry Lamb and
Georgina Hart Hutchinson,
One hundred years later 35 of their surviving relatives gathered together
in the same hotel that the original wedding reception was held.
Attendees not only travelled from England, Scotland and Wales, but also
Italy, France and Canada. |
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group started to arrive on Friday afternoon, many had not met before.
I am first cousin once removed from Emily. (Emily's father
Henry Lamb
had a sister Ann
Grace Lamb who was MY great grandmother) We had a delightful weekend
renewing and making new friends, and enjoyed a three course meal to
celebrate the original wedding, together with a wedding cake showing
pictures of the happy couple and four other weddings within the family.
Members of the family brought memorabilia they had in their keeping for
everyone to enjoy. A slide show ran all day on a large screen of
family and related photographs. Members of the family who could not
attend were contacted by Skype so they could join in the celebration.
This included the surviving children of the original wedding. Ninety
four year old Hugh Reginald Birks, who lives in Canada chatted happily to
his baby brother George Lamb Birks who was ninety years old. |
| The 1911 wedding
took place on 30 August 1911 in
St Pauls
Church, Hartlepool |
The 1911 reception took
place in Grand Hotel, Hartlepool. Note the pillars on the right of the
building |
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The 1911 wedding photograph |
The 2011 Reunion photograph
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Thanks are due mainly to Sally Richardson and Peter Birks whose idea it was
for the reunion and who did most of the organisation to make it happen.
Thanks also to Mike Robson, who created the slide show and the maps to help
us all visit places of interest in and around Hartlepool and whose skills
made our digital photographs look splendid. Sally created a wonderful
book in memory of the day. I am very proud to have a copy on my coffee
table. |
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Thanks to these three people and to everyone else who made this event so
wonderful for me. I know everyone enjoyed the occasion. |
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all agreed to meet again in another hundred years!!!! |
