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Alec Garfield John Govier, Garfield Samuel
John Govier, Olive Govier of Cornwall Family pictures

Showing my first car, a Ford Anglia with an amazing
top speed of about 55mph, with me aged about 18 and my parents,
Olive and Garfield Govier standing proudly by. Taken outside 13
Chacewater Hill, Chacewater, where we (and my grandfather Samuel
John Govier) lived with a fully digital Kodak Brownie box camera!
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A picture taken
of me and my mother by my Grandfather Samuel John Govier
when he was in his eighties. The location was the back
garden at Chacewater Hill.
He was still a very keen photographer
and this shows a family joke where we got tired of smiling
for the camera and made sure we looked miserable.
Even my first dog, Candy, managed to
join in the spitit of things with the expression on
her face!
We have to admit now that even at the
great age he was at, he still showed fine composition
ability in making this photograph.
The photo was taken when I was about
14 I think, with my Box Brownie camera and shows remarkable
enduring quality
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This is my Grandfather, Samuel John Govier aged
83 and sat down holding my dog on his lap in the
back garden at Chacewater.
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Another of our specially posed serious photos taken
by my grandfather and still showing his ability as a
photographer.
The striped blazer was the original design uniform
for Truro School.
Later versions were a more sober navy blue.
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A photograph of my mother in the back garden at Chacewater.
Probably taken by me.A group picture at a special occasion,
probably outside Newquay Wesley.
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The central pair seems to be a rather
untypical photo of my parents Olive and Garfield Govier
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The cup that cheers but does not inebriate. Showing
off the teacups probably in an outside cafe visited by the Newquay
Fellowship or similar occasion.
My father is on the left and I am in the middle,
my mother I think is second from right. I was rightly proud of the
Kodak Brownie Box camera that took this picture. It cost I think
about £6. Well it was the de-luxe version with a filter to slide
in.

My other grandparents Eliza Jane and Richard John
Rowe. Unfortunately I lost him early on, though he was a great favourite
with me. He was a fine tenor singer in Redruth Wesley Methodist
Church Choir and used to work for Climax Steel Works in Camborne,
though he continued to be active in retirement, acting as caretaker
for Richard Trevithicks historic house in Redruth and for the auctioneers.
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Here they are again specially posed in the front
room. It was nice relatively colourful wall paper for
those days I remember.
The front room was only used for special occasions,
such as Christmas and sadly after my grandfather`s funeral
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My mother, Olive Govier, aged probably about 88
I think in one of her favourite restaurants we went to in Cornwall.
Sorry about the quality of the picture, I will try to get some better
ones together gradually for this page. It was done with a camera
phone, like several on this page, but when you are taking a photo
of an 88 year old person you need a fast shutter speed to keep up
with them!
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is my mother at King Charles Nursing Home, Falmouth, only last
year.
Not too bad a picture really. As you can see she
not only definitely has all her wits about her, but is probably
about to offer some words of ctiticism!
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|  Here is quite a good picture of my dad, Garfield
Govier, on one of his better days in Falmouth Hospital aged 94,
only a few months before he died. It was very comforting that he
and my mother were actually in hospital together for several months,
their health having collapsed at the same time, a strangely fortunate
occurence as it happened They were Falmouth Hospital Mascots and
were originally put into a ward together that the staff christened
"The Honeymoon Suite"
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Another photo taken about the same time of my dad
in Falmouth Hospital, also aged 94.
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favourite photo of my mum and Dad Olive and Garfield Govier, taken
at Denyer Court where they lived in sheltered housing for a while.
This was only two or three years ago.
The extremely poor quality is because it is a photo
of a photograph and not a scan of it. They were not really so blotchy
looking!
The original, which I may find later to substitute is
extremely good in fact and was taken by the warden of the flats,
Cynthia Bradley.
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this is me, Alex or Alec Govier, according to the time of day with
my favourite but now sadly deceased cat, Felix about 18months ago.
He did however survive to a very healthy
21 and a half years old. As you can see he so devoted to me that
he was actually difficult to get rid of, even when I was sat
at the computer.
This is taken with the web-cam and shows he would
insist on helping!
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And
this is a recent picture of me in the shop, The Music Box 30/31
The Lanes, Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield S9 1EP
Well, we had to get a plug in here somewhere.
And apologies for the tie by the way
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