Welcome to my family website.
I
set
up
a
website
for
the
first
time
about
20
years
ago
on
a
free
page
that
was
provided
by
my
internet
service
provider
at
the
time.
However,
that
is
now
long-gone
and
in
2016
I
decided
to
use
the
format
of
that
website
to
set
up
a
new
but
still
fairly
basic
one,
using
this
domain
on
a
dedicated
server,
from
where
I
also run a
forum
.
Having
gained
a
bit
more
experience
over
the
years,
I
have
now
moved forward and have created this one, amongst others.
Although
I
have
lived
in
Lowestoft
since
1990,
like
my
father,
I
was
born
in
Seaforth,
a
northern
suburb
of
Liverpool,
where
I
lived
for
over
28
years
before
my
work
took
me
south
to
Cheltenham
and
Gloucester
in
the
mid-1970s
before
moving back north to Handforth in Cheshire for a number of years in the mid-1980s.
My
wife
Enid
was
born
in
Cheshire,
although
lived
in
Parbold,
near
Ormskirk
in
Lancashire
when
I
met
her
in
1966
and
we
were
married
for
over
53
years,
having
celebrated
our
Golden
Wedding
in
May
2019.
The
photos
from our wedding album can be found under the ‘More’ tab in the menu bar at the top of the page.
Sadly,
Enid
passed
away
at
home
in
the
early
hours
of
Wednesday
August
17th
2022,
surrounded
by
her
family.
Her
funeral
took
place
on
Friday 2nd September at Waveney Crematorium and Memorial Park.
Enid
and
I
have
two
daughters,
who
were
both
born
in
Liverpool
before
we
moved
away,
and
they
in
turn
gave
us
four
grandchildren.
Our
elder
daughter
Julie
is
married
to
Jim
and
they
have
two
sons,
Jamie
(26)
and
Luke
(23)
and
live
in
Lowestoft.
Our
younger
daughter
Susan
is
married
to
Mark
and
they
have
a
daughter
-
Chloe
(19)
and
a
son
-
Kyle
(15)
and
live
in
Colne,
Lancashire.
You
will
meet
them
all
on
the
next
page
(link
below)
and
on
various
other
pages
of
images
and
video
galleries
from
the links at the top of the page.
You
will
also
meet
the
other
three
most
recent
‘members’
of
the
family
-
Freddie, our cat who was was born on June 10th 2016 and Shadow, our
budgerigar who sadly passed away on 11th February 2020, aged five.
On
November
6th
2019
we
welcomed
a
new
member
to
the
family
-
a
nine-week-old
female
kitten
whom
we
named
Suki.
One
of
her
first
pictures
is
on
the
‘Our
Family’
page,
with
more
in
her
photo
gallery
-
number_32
and
the
more
recent
‘
Freddie_&_Suki
’
gallery.
A
new
page
of
pictures
-
number_36
-
taken
on
Suki’s
first
birthday, was added on 1st September 2020.
I
have
been
interested
in
photography
since
I
bought
my
first
camera
-
a
Kodak_Bantam_Colorsnap_3
-
in
1964,
for
the
princely
sum
of
£5.1s.7d
-
about
a
week’s
wage
to
me
then
when
I
was
17
-
and
long
before
digital.
In
those
days
I
also
used
to
enjoy
doing
my
own
black
and
white
developing,
printing
and
enlarging
and
in
later
years
I
also
tried
out
the
processing
of
colour
slide
film.
There
are
now
thirty-six
photo
galleries
on
here
displaying
over
3,900
images,
plus
three
of
videos
containing
twenty
movies
of
varying
length
of
up
to
about
20-minutes
-
some
in
slow-motion.
The
most
recent
video
was
taken
and
uploaded
on
the
7th
April
2020,
when
Suki daringly ventured outside into the garden of her own accord.
Please
check
back
from
time
to
time
as
I
continue
to
expand
some
of
the
existing
galleries
and
add
new
ones
of
both images and videos, which I hope you will find interesting.
Updated October 2023
Click images to enlarge
On our Golden Wedding Anniversary - May 3rd 2019
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Latest update - 8th October 2024
© John Rigby 2019 - 2024
The Liver Bird - by Rick Myers
(Click image for details)
Memorial Bench
On June 30th 2023, I placed this teak memorial bench in the garden onto which I had affixed an engraved brass
plaque in Enid’s memory, Later I added two ‘Coreopsis Bright Touch’ perennial plants in rattan planters and six
colour-changing solar-powered cracked-glass-effect lights.
Remembering Enid with flowers, one year on - 17th August 2023
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