Item MM 30038 Glass Negative - Grandmother Hoy with Julia, Thomas & George Beckett, London, England, 1891

Summary

Thomas Beckett's grandmother, Mrs Hoy, with his mother Julia Beckett, Thomas Beckett and his son George, taken in her garden in London, England, 1891.

Part of a collection of glass plate negatives taken by Dr Thomas George Beckett, doctor, pioneering radiologist and amateur photographer between 1891 and 1910. The collection is primarily of Beckett's family, friends, homes, and towns and suburbs where Beckett and his family lived, including Charlton in central Victoria and Northcote & South Yarra, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.

Thomas Beckett and his family visited relatives in England in 1891.

Description of Content

Four generations of the Beckett family - Thomas G Beckett, his son George Beckett, his mother Mrs Beckett and grandmother Hoyt. George is dressed in a sailor suit and holding a Model outrigger sailing vessel.