My Grandfather
Dec. 8th, 2024 08:20 am My grandfather turned up in a dream I posted about the other day and a friend asked if I had pictures of him.
Sure I do....
Here's one of my favourites. Cyril Henry Grist as a cocky young engineer working at the Vickers armaments factory in Dartford during the Great War. Vickers did guns, they also did planes and- I'm sure- all sorts of other clever devices for killing people. I'd like to think Cyril Henry was designing planes but I've no evidence he did....

He was a self-made man. I think he was part Romany (like Charlie Chaplin). He started out poor and rose to be a director of big American engineering firm. He was domineering and very well-read. I loved him. I could write a whole lot more but as Marlene Dietrich says of Orson Welles' character in Touch of Evil, "What does it matter what you say about people?"
Here he is as I remember him. My Grandmother is on the far left and the other three ladies are her sisters, my great aunts.

Sure I do....
Here's one of my favourites. Cyril Henry Grist as a cocky young engineer working at the Vickers armaments factory in Dartford during the Great War. Vickers did guns, they also did planes and- I'm sure- all sorts of other clever devices for killing people. I'd like to think Cyril Henry was designing planes but I've no evidence he did....

He was a self-made man. I think he was part Romany (like Charlie Chaplin). He started out poor and rose to be a director of big American engineering firm. He was domineering and very well-read. I loved him. I could write a whole lot more but as Marlene Dietrich says of Orson Welles' character in Touch of Evil, "What does it matter what you say about people?"
Here he is as I remember him. My Grandmother is on the far left and the other three ladies are her sisters, my great aunts.

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Date: 2024-12-08 08:42 am (UTC)That is a wonderful picture. Do you know who took it?
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Date: 2024-12-08 04:14 pm (UTC)I know it was taken at Vickers because it has "Vickers" written on the back.
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Date: 2024-12-08 04:15 pm (UTC)Which means I am too.....
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