On the back of the photo to the right, Ivy has written: "Colin on the Bike taken at Manchester."

I would estimate my father to be four or five years old, so the photo could have been taken around 1933.

I believe the photograph was taken either at Gorton or Denton, both in Manchester.

In December 1932, when Ivy's father John FRANKLIN died, her brother Harold FRANKLIN was named on the death certificate as informant and said he lived at "24 Bury Street, Church Lane, Gorton, Manchester." However, my father also remembered visiting cousins in Denton, Manchester, when he was a child.

Today, both places are about a ten-minute drive apart to the east of Manchester.

The boy holding the bike is probably Harold's son Harold, who was born July 15, 1922 in Manchester, when the family was living at 24 Bury Street, Gorton.