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Handwriting experts! Help me decipher the writing on the back of these photos!

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invisiblebark · 10/12/2024 23:22

Going through some old photos and found the following three.

Can't work out what it says!

Can anyone help?

Handwriting experts! Help me decipher the writing on the back of these photos!
Handwriting experts! Help me decipher the writing on the back of these photos!
Handwriting experts! Help me decipher the writing on the back of these photos!
OP posts:
Peaceandquietandacuppa · 10/12/2024 23:26

Elephant Bath, Ceylon

meala · 10/12/2024 23:25

Perhaps “All my love mo chridhe” that’s gaelic for my heart.

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 10/12/2024 23:25

Dunno about riding a horse, but ah sure can ride a heffa-lump. With love

Octavia64 · 10/12/2024 23:24

Elizabeth bath? Ceylon 1956

Lovely Victorian copperplate by the way

murasaki · 10/12/2024 23:24

I think mo chridh means my darling.

Elephant's something, Ceylon 56. Can't work out the something.

Yellowsubmarineunderthesea · 10/12/2024 23:23

One looks like Elephant's Back, Ceylon. Ceylon is now called Sri Lanka

Oddsocksanduglyshoes · 10/12/2024 23:23

I would say

all my love, name?
from your loving fiancé

BlackeyedSusan · 10/12/2024 23:23

Elephant bath. Ceylon.

Octavia64 · 10/12/2024 23:23

All my love, ma Cherie, from your loving