A collection of photographs that belonged to Emma Sarah Carpenter (née Phillips) and Kathleen May Yates (nee Carpenter):

1.0 The Phillips Family at the wedding of Richard Spicer & Susan Tomkins, 1910

This photograph includes Maidie Phillips, Ellen Elizabeth Down (nee Phillips), Kathleen Carpenter, Jim Phillips, Mary Ann Phillips (nee Tomkins), William Rowland Phillips, Richard Spicer, Charles Phillips, Susan Tomkins, Thomas Arthur Phillips and Emma Sarah Carpenter (nee Phillips).

1.1 Ellen Elizabeth Phillips (Chubb)

1.2 School Photograph

It is possible that this photograph of Class 4 could be Kathleen Carpenter’s class at Lyndhurst Grove School in Camberwell.

1.3 Kathleen May Carpenter in a pram

1.4 Kathleen May Carpenter as a child

1.5 Kathleen May Carpenter, Studio Portrait –1928

1.6 Fred, Emma Sarah and Kathleen Carpenter, Studio Portrait –1928

1.7 Mary Ann Phillips (nee Tomkins) c. 1920s

1.8 Kathleen’s Passport –1930

1.9 Kathleen May Carpenter in Switzerland, c.1930s

1.10 Interlaken – 1931

Photograph taken by George Charles Smith-Grogan at Heimwehfluh, Interlaken in the Summer of 1931. The photograph shows Madeline Alma Phillips, Jim Phillips, Olive (Kathleen's friend), Kathleen May Carpenter, Lily Kimber (Kathleen's friend) and Frederick Carpenter.

1.11 Kathleen May Carpenter – c. 1920s/30s

1.12 Group photograph outside church

Frederick and Emma Sarah Carpenter appear in this photograph of unknown date. The other individuals in the photograph are not known. 

1.13 Group on deckchairs 1

Photograph of Frederick Ernest Carpenter, Emma Sarah Carpenter and Kathleen Carpenter with two other people. The remaining two individuals in this photograph have not been identified.

1.14 Group on deckchairs 2

The same group from Photograph 1.13 appears in this second photograph, except that Maidie Phillips has replaced Kathleen on the front row.

1.15 Group sitting on rocks

The location and date of this photograph are unknown. The photograph shows Frederick Carpenter, Emma Sarah Carpenter (nee Phillips) , Daisy Pithouse, Lilian Carpenter, Beattie Davidson, George Davidson.

1.16 Unknown Gentleman

1.17 Bill Down with his second wife

This photograph is labelled ‘Mother and Father at New Milton’ and shows Bill Down with his second wife.

1.18 Group Photograph on the beach

This group photograph is possibly taken at Folkestone by Fred Carpenter. Emma Sarah Carpenter (nee Phillips) is seated in a deckchair. The deckchair next to Emma is possibly occupied by Fred’s dog.

1.19 Unknown Gentleman and child

1.20 Frederick Carpenter

1.21 Three generations at married quarters, Shorncliffe c. late 1930s

Emma Sarah Carpenter (nee Phillips) with her daughter Kathleen and grandaughter.

1.22 Group Photograph at the back of 386 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich c. 1940s

Group Photograph at the back of 386 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich at some point in the 1940s after the family returned to London, having evacuated during the War (Wal Phillips, Nan Phillips and Betty spent the war years in Wales). The photograph includes Nan Phillips, Kathleen Yates (nee Carpenter), Beattie Davidson, Betty (Nan’s niece). The girl at the front of the group is probably Kathleen’s daughter.

1.23 George & Grace Smith-Grogan – 1966

1.24 Unknown Couple

1.25 Susan Spicer (nee Tomkins) – July 1958

Susan Spicer (nee Tomkins) poses for a photograph on a scooter with the Yates family and Denise during a visit to  Shorncliffe Crescent, Folkestone in July 1958. Denise was a student who came over from France to stay with the family.

1.26 Fred Carpenter

A small photograph of Frederick Ernest Carpenter

There was also a postcard from Wal Phillips sent from France in 1918, which can be seen in the article Wal Phillips - Service in the First World War

If you can identify any of the individuals or locations please get in touch!