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Four Friends Reunite To Recreate Photo Taken at Their First Vacation Together 50 Years Ago
MyModernMet ^ | 11.27.2024 | Regina Sienra

Posted on 12/02/2024 6:35:11 PM PST by libh8er

Some friends are forever, and a few people are lucky enough to have pictures to show for it. A group of four women from the UK traveled to a seaside resort in Torquay, Devon, England, in 1972. During their time there, a photographer snapped a picture of them walking arm in arm on the promenade. Now, the four of them have reunited over half a century later to recreate that heartwarming image.

Carol Ansbro, Marion Bamforth, Susan Morris, and Mary Helliwell, from Halifax, had the time of their lives on that trip. “Our first holiday in Torquay was truly amazing,” Morris, who now has five grandchildren, told The Telegraph & Argus. “We were only kids and so excited about staying in a cramped caravan and sharing each other’s clothes. It felt really exotic and grown-up being on our own without parents in the English Riviera.” And so, the four vowed to return when they started celebrating their 70th birthdays.

The group has now fulfilled their promise when Ansboro, the oldest of the group, reached that milestone age. Not only did they return to Torquay, but they also set out to recreate their image—one they didn't even plan to shoot on their first trip. “The picture was taken by those photographers who used to roam the promenade preying on unsuspecting tourists like us,” Morris remembers.

The friends wore outfits that closely matched the ones worn in the original image. However, the real challenge was locating the exact spot where it was taken, as many things had changed over the course of five decades. ”Nobody could remember where the photo took place but, luckily, a member of staff at the hotel where we were staying, guided us to the exact spot,” Morris shared. “The white building in the 1972 photograph had been demolished but the same bridge is still in the background.”


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1 posted on 12/02/2024 6:35:11 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

That’s a nice story.


2 posted on 12/02/2024 6:36:59 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: libh8er

Oh, my. Too many carbs.

God bless them for keeping their friendship together!!


3 posted on 12/02/2024 6:37:55 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: libh8er

Gee, this is stupid and uninteresting.


4 posted on 12/02/2024 6:39:14 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Jane Long

“Yellow over Blue” looks to have gotten along pretty well....


5 posted on 12/02/2024 6:40:41 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: libh8er
Torquay makes me think of FAWLTY TOWERS….

Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain…

6 posted on 12/02/2024 6:46:16 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: libh8er

Well, Torquay is nice but who wants to go to the UK these days?


7 posted on 12/02/2024 6:46:19 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Paladin2

Yes...she’s the only one with skinny ankes, still.


8 posted on 12/02/2024 6:49:00 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: libh8er

That’s pretty cool. I like the way they wore similar clothes.

Not to be snarky (heh, me snarky?) but IMO the one on the far right is better looking now than she was 50 years ago!


9 posted on 12/02/2024 7:00:10 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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Same thoughts....


10 posted on 12/02/2024 7:01:04 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: libh8er

How cute! Nice that they’re all friends and got together for this....they look happy and fun and like a sweet bunch of gals to meet for an outing!


11 posted on 12/02/2024 7:16:21 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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"... a member of staff at the hotel where we were staying, guided us to the exact spot,” ...

Has that poor git been working there as a bellboy for the last 50 years?

At least his memory is good. :)

12 posted on 12/02/2024 7:17:31 PM PST by TigersEye (If you voted for Kamala you're a squirrel murdering communist!)
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To: Jane Long

Second from the right better get checked for heart problems with that swelling. It’s a bad sign.


13 posted on 12/02/2024 7:21:55 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

You clicked ...


14 posted on 12/02/2024 7:22:49 PM PST by TexasGator (1/')
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To: libh8er

Good for them. The stuff life is made of.


15 posted on 12/02/2024 7:25:32 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: libh8er

We have something similar of my mom and her 3 sisters when their age range was from about 3 to to 7. We re-staged it in the same place about 60 years later.


16 posted on 12/02/2024 7:46:21 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Lockbox

Hahaha. That was so great. Memories!


17 posted on 12/02/2024 7:49:00 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Nervous Tick

I agree. She has aged well and filled up in the right places.


18 posted on 12/02/2024 7:50:47 PM PST by nwrep
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To: libh8er

As I always say, “Time and gravity are no one’s friends.”


19 posted on 12/02/2024 7:52:14 PM PST by MHT
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To: Jane Long

I have 3 friends from grade school that I’ve known for about 50 years. One looks like the lady in blue on the far right. She’s from good German stock. The rest of us…let’s just say that the largest of us looks no bigger than the lady in yellow and blue skirt, second from the left. We try to get together every year or so. Didn’t get a visit in this year, but we were together in October 2023. Life happens so every year doesn’t always work. We are truly blessed to still be friends all these years later!


20 posted on 12/02/2024 7:56:51 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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