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4 Opening spread: Bill and Doreen leaving St Paul’s church on their wedding day, 24th April 1954, with best man Alan Kirkwood at the back. 1| Bill and Doreen dressed to kill in 1963 for Alan and Dalma Scriven’s wedding.
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THE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND Time never stands still and six years has passed since the first, and only copy, of this book was produced. A further six years of memories, family arriving and leaving; just all part of a growing family. Originally conceived to be a celebration of both my parents Doreen and Bill turning 80, this volume was to be a visual record of their amazing lives. The kernel for this project was the simple desire to bring together all the disparate images of our family history. They had been distributed amongst various albums, boxes, cupboards or hung on walls. I thought this book would become a simple snapshot of our family, it has become so much more. The project also proved much bigger than imagined, and its completion was long overdue when my mother passed away before ever seeing the finished book. The desire to record the love my parents had for each other and their family had become even greater. This book of our family’s history is aimed to record just one small part of the web of lives. It is unfortunate that most of the hopes, dreams, lives and stories of those who have already passed on, are now lost to us. Hopefully with this book we may gain a small insight into our connected dreams as every one of us has a story to tell. Included are our family trees, each of us is just a single leaf in a tangle of intertwined branches. This book also became a journey into discovering not only more of who we are, but also who I am. I know at times this project has driven my parents to distraction yet it has also stimulated the re-telling of stories, and deepening our connection to one another by re-discovering our shared memories. None of us live our lives in isolation. There is a theory, postulated by Karinthy, that we all part of a giant, connected web of human existence. The true measure of this connectedness is ‘no person on earth is more than six steps away from any other person on this planet.’ The book has been laid out in a fairly logical manner, or at least logical in my mind. The Scriven and Knight family trees are followed by early images of the seperate families. The nexus of these four trees occurred when Bill and Doreen married in 1954. From then onwards the connections continued to branch with children, grandchildren and great–grandchildren. The book then separates into the successive decades since my parents marriage over 60 years ago. A record of relatives, family and friends these snapshots in time include numerous social events such as weddings and parties. The appendix incudes further realted family trees, extra details, images and connected snippets. In the process of creating this book many stories have surfaced, which is slowly coalescing into yet another book. This volume is more than a simple photo album, it is a snapshot of the web of our existence which continues to grow beyond time.
Peter Charles Scriven, September 2019
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1| William Charles at 5 months in a studio pose for Mr. Whitehead. 2| Doreen Margaret Jane, at age 4, slightly surly at having her photo taken. 3| The happy couple looking fabulous on their big day on the 24th April 1954.
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1| Four of the Crisp kids at Mama and Randa’s 50th wedding anniversary [l to r] Ted Crisp, Dorothy Scriven, Clara Kennedy, George Scriven, Thora Clegg. 2| Mary Dorothy (Doss) Crisp and William George (George) Scriven in a studio shoot around the time of their engagement in 1931.
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1| The Scriven family: William George, Charles Leslie, Charles Richard, Evaline Eva (Rossiter) and Eva May, circa 1928. 2| Bill, George and baby Wayne, 1957. 3| Family outing to Cunnighams Gap [l to r] George, Doreen, Bill, Dorothy and Ethel Francis. 4| Bathing group, circa 1940, [l to r] Alan, George, Doss and Les Scriven, May and George Stokes, Emily Scriven and Shirley Stokes, down in front Bill and Jean Scriven with Maggie Jordon. 5| Family group Charles (Pop), Eva (Ma), Emily, Les and George, circa 1932.
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1| George, May and Les Scriven around 1928. 2| Doss and George, proud grandparents, at the christening of Wayne in 1957. 3| Dorothy and George ready to leave on their honeymoon in 1931. 4| George Scriven in a bub shot, around 1909. 5| William Henry Scriven, Sarah Ann Lovell with probably Charles Richard in a formal studio pose.
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1| Emily Scriven (nee Jordan), circa 1928. 2| Tom Law and George Scriven, circa 1928. 3| Alan and George Scriven in the mid 1940s. 4| Dorothy Crisp in the 1920s. 5| Group photo at Cunningham’s Gap [l to r] Alan, George and Bill Scriven flanking Shirley Stokes and Doreen Knight.
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1| Eva and Charles Scriven with baby Sonny Stokes. 2| Stokes family group photo: [l to r] Emily, Les Scriven, May Stokes, George and baby Shirley Stokes, Sonny Stokes on the lap of Eva Scriven, Charles Scriven behind her and George Scriven and Doss Crisp on the far right. 3| Sonny Stokes and Madge Rodgers in a wedding. 4| Alan and Bill with Ethel Francis. 5| Back of the truck group photo: [l to r] George and Alan Scriven, Ethel Francis, Doreen Knight, Bill Scriven and Frank Francis.
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1| The Stokes family group: [l to r] May, Sonny, George and Shirley. 2| Les Scriven and Emily Jordan on their wedding day in the 1931. 3| Pop Scriven (Charles) hosingthe garden in the backyard of Holdsworth Road house. 4| Frank Francis and George Scriven in a Model T Ford at the Ipswich show. 5| A formal portrait of William George at 21.
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1| View looking upstream to Mount Crosby Weir, from the cliffs above Allawah. The River Paddock is middle left. 2| Fig trees and River Paddock looking north. 3| The stock yard under the river paddock trees. 4| One of teh shady River Paddock fig trees. 5| Looking back up the hill at the River Paddock.
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1| Randa and Wayne on their horses out at the River Paddock. 2| George with Daphne’s new foal, Mickey. 3| Daphne, Mickey and George at Coal Road with Doreen and Ted Crisp in the background. 4| Frank and Gerald Francis with Mickey and Daphne.
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1| Randa and Wayne on their horses out at the River Paddock. 2| George with Daphne’s new foal, Mickey. 3| Daphne, Mickey and George at Coal Road with Doreen and Ted Crisp in the background. 4| Frank and Gerald Francis with Mickey and Daphne.
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