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

34 replies

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:
Octavia64 · 10/12/2024 23:23

All my love, ma Cherie, from your loving

BlackeyedSusan · 10/12/2024 23:23

Elephant bath. Ceylon.

Oddsocksanduglyshoes · 10/12/2024 23:23

I would say

all my love, name?
from your loving fiancé

Yellowsubmarineunderthesea · 10/12/2024 23:23

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

murasaki · 10/12/2024 23:24

I think mo chridh means my darling.

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

Octavia64 · 10/12/2024 23:24

Elizabeth bath? Ceylon 1956

Lovely Victorian copperplate by the way

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 10/12/2024 23:25

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

meala · 10/12/2024 23:25

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

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 10/12/2024 23:26

Elephant Bath, Ceylon

Soundofshuna · 10/12/2024 23:26

Dunno about riding a ….bit I sure can ride a rifle charge?

cortex10 · 10/12/2024 23:26

Dunno about riding a horse (?) but ah sure can ride a heffa lump

BlackeyedSusan · 10/12/2024 23:27

Also.think it ends with a heffa lump!

invisiblebark · 10/12/2024 23:32

1st image I got "all my love (....) from your loving Finance" but can't work out the bracket bit. The finance would be called Monica. But it doesn't look like Monica?

2nd image I read it as "Elephants Bath"

But wasn't sure what the place was Ceylon or something.

And I couldn't read the third image at all but I can see what people are saying about heffa lump now!

OP posts:
Zonder · 10/12/2024 23:34

meala · 10/12/2024 23:25

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

Definitely this. And the other is definitely Elephant bath Ceylon.

GildedRage · 10/12/2024 23:34

fiancé

invisiblebark · 10/12/2024 23:34

Octavia64 · 10/12/2024 23:24

Elizabeth bath? Ceylon 1956

Lovely Victorian copperplate by the way

Should have said he's riding an elephant in the photo! So I'm assuming Elephants Bath.

It's my Grandpa's writing but looks nothing like his writing at all!

OP posts:
Zonder · 10/12/2024 23:35

What are the photos on the flip sides?

caringcarer · 10/12/2024 23:35

Dunno about riding a loss but sure can ride a heffa lump.

jelliestfish · 10/12/2024 23:40
  1. "All my love, mo bride" ?
  2. As above "Elephants Bath, Ceylon"
  3. "Dunno about riding a hors, but - - - ride a heffa-lump"
Lincoln24 · 10/12/2024 23:44

cortex10 · 10/12/2024 23:26

Dunno about riding a horse (?) but ah sure can ride a heffa lump

A hoss
Ah shure can
I think it's written in a Western movie accent

Justyouwaitandseeagain · 10/12/2024 23:51

Agree with all the comments above. The jokey turn of phrase is the way my relatives used to write notes to each other.

invisiblebark · 10/12/2024 23:54

Lincoln24 · 10/12/2024 23:44

A hoss
Ah shure can
I think it's written in a Western movie accent

That does sound like the sort of thing he'd do!

OP posts:
BellissimoGecko · 10/12/2024 23:54

invisiblebark · 10/12/2024 23:32

1st image I got "all my love (....) from your loving Finance" but can't work out the bracket bit. The finance would be called Monica. But it doesn't look like Monica?

2nd image I read it as "Elephants Bath"

But wasn't sure what the place was Ceylon or something.

And I couldn't read the third image at all but I can see what people are saying about heffa lump now!

Mo chride

MaitreKarlsson · 11/12/2024 00:00

All my love, mo chridhe = my darling in Irish, from your loving fiance (one 'e' crossed out as two would = woman, so a man has written this.) My Irish grandparents used this word affectionately (also 'cara' for darling)

Heffalump (ie from winnie the pooh) is a fun way of saying elephant - my grandparents used this word.

I'm guessing the pic relates to elephants as well!

How lovely to see these OP.

MaitreKarlsson · 11/12/2024 00:01

And Ceylon = now Sri Lanka