My Grandfather
Dec. 8th, 2024 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo 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.
