Lovers

And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow

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Alfred Farndale and Peggy Baker, 1929 Howard Holmes and Grace Farndale, 1934 Jim Goodbrand and Dorothy Kinsey, 1950s Alfred Ross and Dorothy Farndale, 1928

Martin Farndale and Anne Buckingham, 1955 Janie Farndale and John Rydell, 1941 Jim Farndale and Edna Adams, 1917 Howard Farndale and Shirley Parsons, 1963

Alfred Farndale and Peggy Farndale’s Golden Wedding, 1979 William and Mary Farndale’s Golden Wedding, 1966

After George Farndale was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917, his fiancée, Dolly, wrote to George’s sister, to lament a short lasting union. It was an awful blow to me dear, and is one that I shall never forget. He was such a nice quiet and gentle boy and was very much liked by all who knew him in Sawbridgeworth, and no fellow could not think so much of a girl as your dear brother did of me, and had he been spared to come back safely we intended getting married. I don’t know if he ever spoke about it to you.

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