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Grandma Langford and my aunties

From the left - Florrie Edwards (family name) - may dad's mum and my grandma, Auntie Fanny and Aunty Lou. The photo was taken in the 1950s. My memories of them are fragmentary now.  Florrie died in 1963 and I was 5 at the time. Aunty Fanny delivered the milk and kept cows for many years and then lived in a council flat. She brought up my cousins Father Fred after her sister Sarah committed suicide. Auntie Lou kept a monkey in a cage and dad always used to laugh when he told the story of treading gingerly past it in the dark as he headed for the outside toilet - or Lou's loo...