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Photos from family collections, show Albert, his wife, daughter and descendents.
Born Albert George Webb in Ipswich in 1869.
Here he is in his younger days!
He went to Guernsey where he fell in love with Frances!
A studio photo, he often wore a straw hat!
Here he is with Frances (left) and auntie Glad!
One of his alter egos, "Mrs Wiggins"
He was also an accomplished ventriloquist, musician and composer
Albert and Frances left Guernsey in 1914 and moved to Dorset and had one daughter, my nan, Vera (known as Mollie)
With her mother Frances
My Nan as a baby!
Family Portrait taken December 1921.
Frances with her mother Harriet, her brothers and sisters ,nieces and nephew and her daughter Mollie aged about 5
Albert and his mother Mary and Mollie as a baby.
this photo was taken in 1918 in Ealing.
Mollie knew her grandmother as "Granny Day"
Mary and Albert left Ipswich in the 1870's and moved to Reading, Berkshire
where she met Thomas Day. Thomas appears to have "adopted" Albert and they went on to have more children. The family later moved to West Ham, London. The name Day was later used as inspiration for Albert's stage name "Deighton"
These two photos were taken in August 1930
With daughter Mollie taken about 1933.
They moved from Dorset in the 1920's to Horley, Surrey.
Albert was the manager of the local Cinema and Mollie joined him as an Usherette.
Albert on the steps of the Plaza Cinema circa 1933
Albert died in 1934 of stomach cancer.
He is buried in Horley, Surrey with his wife Frances.
My Nan married Norman
Soon my mum was born!
Here's my christening, my nan is holding me, Mum(left) and my Dad(right)
Circa 1979 Me, my nan and grandad
Mollie on her 80th Birthday in 1996
And with all of her grandchildren, their spouses and great grandchildren
March 1996
