Other Places
Ramsgate and Margate
Each year until Mum was 14, the family would take a week's holiday at Ramsgate, during which they would spend a day or two in Margate. They were able to do this because of the income from Gran's dressmaking. Mum told me that Grandad would say to Gran that she should pay for the food for the trip and he would pay for the fares, not letting on that, as a British Rail employee, he was entitled to free travel for himself and his family. I do not know how long he got away with that.
In the first photograph, the whole family is seen in about 1923 in the second row of the audience of a variety show on the seafront at Ramsgate. Arthur is in the middle of the photo, wearing a cap, and sitting in front of some empty seats. To his left is Ivy, wearing a mob cap, then Gran, then Granddad and finally Mum. Mum too had a mob cap, but she had just taken it off. The building at the back may be the railway station.
In the second photograph, Gran and Grandad are walking along the prom in Ramsgate. The children would have been on the beach. The date is unknown but, Grandad's face is much thinner than in the first photo, so I would think about 1930.
In the third photo, Gran is sitting in a deckchair in Ramsgate, on an unknown date.
These two photos of Mum were taken at Margate in 1932, when she was 18. In the second photo she is with her friend, Hilda, who was to be Mum's chief bridesmaid
Leath Fort, Edinburgh
Robert Treacher was based here for a short while in 1870/71.
Further information about the Fort is here.
Colchester Barracks, Essex
Robert Treacher arrived at the Barracks on 20 May 1875 and remained there until about November 1878.
Further information about the Barracks is here.
India
Robert and Jessie Treacher arrived at St Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu, India on 25 November 1978. Their first two children were born there, Edward in 1879 and Robert in 1881.
On 8 April 1882 Robert was transferred to Wellington, Tamil Nadu and their third child, Richard, was born there in 1882.