I often get asked to reproduce family photograph albums so that various members of the family can share the family history.

I was asked by Moira to recreate an important family photo album so that both she and her sister could have a copy of the book with the historic photographs and handwritten descriptions.

Below is the original and the new lay-flat photobook I created.

Moira said “My sister and I are just glad that we have this marvelous record to share and that you could bring it back to life for us”

Old album and new photobook

Moira told me

“My father signed up for his national service because the Essex Regiment were going to be posted to India. He had a place a medical school but deferred it to go to India. He loved it there, a complete culture shock from Chingford. The army taught him to drive, allowed him to play hockey and he was upset to leave India having fostered a dog there that he had to leave. My father was a doctor so army life was far from ideal but he appreciated the opportunity he was given and never forgot his time there. He was a keen photographer and you can see the care he took to display each photograph and carefully write an inscription.”