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Photo Album Balmoral
no specific family name but Donaldson gets mentioned a lot
there are a few loose photos tucked inside certain pages, I'll put all the
photos in the order they came in the album, although they may have been
moved by anyone looking at the album.
below is the first photo in the album, on the
inside leaf opposite was written:- Balmoral Prison Records. All
good books have a foreword written by some worthy of that time, so it
behoves me to say a little about each of the persons whose photos are here
enshrined (a slight pressure on the top left hand corner and off they come).
I.O.M.? Mrs. Collins - Miss Donaldson deceased. Age 39 yrs +? -
A great girl. (I don't think they mean she is dead, maybe just that the
'Miss' is deceased and she is now married, could be the owner of the album?
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1) a) Recreation Pavilion. Church Tennis Club. Note the pub on left hand
side. ~ b) Albert Smylie. I am speechless to think of the people my sister
associated with. ~ c) Dot. of carry me? ~ d) can't make it out, could end
in a? Whanlee?
2) bottom right: Jim introduces Gretta to the family.
3) top left: The two pretenders.
4) Come up & see me sometime.
5) top: Me (scored out?) or M. I. or J.? a nice quiet little dear,
went to bed at 1.30 a.m. in her youth (lazy) and never did her lessons on
Sundays. ~ left: I.O.M. Oh what a fool man is! ~ right: The man's mad.? ~
bottom: Maisie & a funny man!
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1) a) Charlie & Norman. Child & Man. ~ b) The Residence. ~ c) same again.
Same as what.
2) top: Poultry farmers. ~ left: Tennis Party. (Some joke round here) ~
right: Jim and Harry. Two strong youths.
3) (Aunt Emily) & Rolls Royce. The terror of road hogs.
4) top left: Seven Beauties. all except 3rd one in bottom row from left. ~
top right: Lording? Lord Norman & his two mums. ~ bottom: The P? Na? What
Oh!
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1) writings hard to make out top left: The Mas ~ top right: Me? ~ bottom
left: missing escaped from Borstal. Please send some donation to our
Relief Fund. ~ bottom middle: S/S Pittsburg. Jan 1926 Dudley? ~ bottom
right: Brotherly love (then) Break his neck (now)
2) This page leaves me speechless. ~ top: The Da & two ? ~ middle left:
Gretta who is crazy about Jim ~ middle right: Dot.? J. Orr. ~ bottom:
missing Chris - Nora? in the snow storm?
3) top left: "Eve" ~ top right: I'm a nice wee girl am't? I.
4) top left: Well whot abaht it. ~ top middle: Lord Donaldson (in his
working attire) with his sister & little brother. ~ bottom right: The Kids
and ?
5) can't make out some of the writing ~ An old Borstal pal of Jim's.
Ole Joe. "Next? please"? Shame/Share/Shave? on a ? ?
 
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1) top left: Newcastle S. ?. Excursion. ~ top right: Kathleen Osborne ~
bottom left: I hope we don't look like what we feel. ~ bottom right: Aunt
Cis - Betty?
2) top right: ? ? ~ bottom right (writing under the photo beside)
I took this Maisie put me off.
3) top left: Jim just back from Jail ~ top middle missing A Has Been.
~ bottom left missing Result of going ? bed at seven? o'clock. ~
bottom middle: The Group at Stairs?? ~ bottom right: Wee Willie.
4) top right: Germany ~ bottom left: Fore? ~ bottom right: ? ? again.
5) top left: Douglas ~ middle: Norman's toy? crane working at the bottom of
the garden. ~ bottom left: Mum? When you find her.
6) top left: Back entrance to a pub. Jim has just gone in thru the door. ~
top right: The Rattle Trap.
top: One of Willie Shakespeares Plays. "Play up the Tin Can Dribblers"? ~
bottom: The team that was. H.? D.?
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1) top left: Listen Folks. This poor guy is deaf & dumb & has 2 haves? of
glass in his eyes. He has a hump on his back is ? toes? & was called a funny
boy by Maisie. ~ bottom: The funny boy again.
2) top left: I've left the Air Force. ~ top right: Bendy legs. ~ bottom
right: Lord Donaldson & his dog with two playmates.
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4) right: Yes Sah A Went Round in 102.
5) top: Cats ~ bottom left: Cats Jim's Girls ~ bottom right: Dogs
6) top left: Dogs ~ top right: Cats ~ bottom right: Cats
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2) top right: Jack with an old flame.
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5) top right: when your holiday photos are too boring! ~ bottom
right: Film Stars ?
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"Criminals? all"
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1) top right: Lagan
2) top left: one of ? Jim taken by a girl friend ~ middle: Another of
them? ~ bottom right: Oh mother two of them!
3) top left: Harry Lauder
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5) top left: Taken by another Girl Friend
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2) What's she gonna do - cry?
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"Hold 'Em Jail"
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1) Jim took these at Portrush ~ This is the one he saved from drowning.
2) Feb 0 9 ~ King Cole
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4) Jim keeping well back from the ball.
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2) middle top: The Beginning of a Great Romance.
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3) bottom left: Don ~ bottom right: We - men
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1) top left: Sally & Sue ~ top right: .... shut his eyes after having
cracked a joke ? ? his playmate
2) The four enemies by N. F? Donaldson
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1) bottom left: Borstal Boy & 2 Pals
2) top left: You don't say so!!!!! ~ bottom right: Want a dig in the eye?
3) top left: Jim looking for a bit of stuff up at Bellevue ~ top right:
Naughty boy! ~ middle bottom: Hell U. V.
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6) Joe Beckett Alias "Beauty" 14 years ?ard Jim's Pals from the
Shankill Linfield F.C. ~ bottom photos: Nothin' Doin' Yet at Bellevue
 
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3) top right: She gets hold of both - now where's my daughter ~ centre
photo: This is Maisie's Grave but she won't lie down ~ bottom left: The Ma
Get Hold of Jack
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, 27 Feb 1929
Ashleigh Studio, Belfast
June 1947
no info, on photo says "Safety First" some kind of mathematical equation and
"P.S. Greyhound" "Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle...."
and a bunch of pirates, I'm gonna guess Queens University?
I also think this letter is related to the above photo of Pirates.
104 Short Strand, Belfast 27.4.25 - Dear Sir, As promised to your band
of "robbers and pirates" I send you herewith cheque £5 in payment of ransom
demanded. I sincerely hope that your onslaught on the citizens of our city
will result in a very handsome sum being handed over to the Belfast
Hospitals. Sincerely Yours Jas. N. Lyle. S. Taggart Esq.,
Captain of the Gang. Students Union.
list of names on back probably other 'ransom payers' J/ Colgan & Sons,
Oxford Street; James McSparran B.L.; J. Beckett Jenkins F.A.I., 20 Waring
Street. Hoffman £5; Lyle £5; Jenkins 10/-; McAlinden £5; Nesbitt £1;
Dan? Brady £1; James D.? Mackey J.P. 10/-; Antrim ? ? ? £1; John McMann
Belfast, others very faint, mostly repeats.
photo inside an envelope addressed to: S. Taggart Esq., 39 Glenmore Road,
N.W. 3. Postmark maybe 12th May 1935 or 6? London from Messrs. Rawood Ltd.,
12 Baker Street, W.I. also inside the envelope :-
The Institution of Civil Engineers Annual Dinner 29 April 1936. In the
Chair: Mr. John D. Watson, President. At the Savoy Hotel, London. Name Index
and Table Plan.
I won't type all the names out but there is an S. Taggart there among many
well-known names.
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