Seeing as I was going on about Tramore and the beauty of the Waterford coastline I thought I would post these two photos of my father's family during the 1920's. In the first one my Grandaunt Alicia and her friend are on the Prom in Tramore. This is right on the spot where I now walk every week, and I love the fun they are having on what is obviously a glorious day. Besides the improvements to the Prom it is exactly the same.
In the second photo, and some years later, the family are on Annestown Beach having a picnic, and that's my Gran with the cool hair and the jaunty fag....a very liberated woman for her time! We still picnic on these beaches every summer ourselves and when I saw these photos for the first time recently I realised that we are just carrying on family tradition, a love of the day at the seaside, like so many other Irish families. In this generation and the next, we all adore the sea!
By the way to two babies in that photo, my Dad and his beloved cousin Annie are the only ones still with us and are now well into their 80's.
