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  • In the days before Jane Fonda ......

    My Grandmother born 1889 - how old do you think she is in these? (definitely trying to "keep young and beautiful"!)



    Sue

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    Nice picture. she's doing callisthenics:

    Ontario's Sporting Past: Picton Collegiate girls’ callisthenics class

    Calisthenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Last edited by Mary from Italy; 03-04-08, 09:51.

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    • #3
      That's really interesting Mary -they are very simlar poses!

      I thought they were really funny - I remember Grandma as a dumpy little 75 yr old!
      Sue

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      • #4
        I know my grandmother put her hair up at 14 when she left school so I would guess about 14 in 1906. Really nice photos
        Anne

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        • #5
          I'd say she was still a young girl in her early teens. I wonder what the token pinned to her pinafore was?
          ~ with love from Little Nell~
          Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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          • #6
            And whose fingerprints are those on the edge of the mount?
            ~ with love from Little Nell~
            Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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            • #7
              Love the photos, and she is taking it SO seriously.........

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              • #8
                A case for the restorers?

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                • #9
                  She looks about 13 or 14 to me. Great photos and very unusual subject. Perhaps she was very good at the exercises?

                  Anne

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                  • #10
                    I think she looks about 13 or 14 too. Mum (age 87) doesn't remember Grandma talking about "doing exercises" (but then she only remembered these photos yesterday:() but she certainly had all the gear! Do you think the gymslip was the equivalent of the legwarmer - very trendy in its day:D

                    And yes James I think I will get the restorers on to them - someone has handled them with very sticky fingers (not me, Nell!)
                    Sue

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                    • #11
                      I'd say she looks around 13 or 14.
                      The gymslip reminded me of my school days!!
                      Karen x

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