![Black and white photograph of an older couple in old-fashioned clothes sitting on a bench](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/4_IMG_1308.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
My grandfather George Moody and grandmother Annie (née Andrews). They married in 1909.
![Black and white photograph of a little girl in a white Victorian dress and sunhat](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/6_IMG_0517.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
Annie as a young girl. She was born in Ramsgate, Kent, in 1885.
![Black and white portrait photograph of a young woman in Victorian dress](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/10_IMG_2166.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
My great grandmother Annie Louise Hiller
![Black and white portrait photograph of a man in a sailor's uniform and a woman in Victorian dress](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/7_scan0001.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
George's parents George and Emily Moody, c.1878.
![Black and white photograph of a little girl, a middle-aged man, two young women and a young man in Edwardian dress](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/5_IMG_1101-scaled.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
Annie (front right), her father William Andrews and her siblings.
![Black and white photograph two chow-chows](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/9_IMG_0970.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
George and Annie showed these chow-chows at the dog show Crufts in the 1930s.
![Black and white photograph of a smiling little girl playing an accordion](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/3_IMG_0197.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
My mother Vera Meakins (née Moody) playing the accordion.
![Black and white photograph of a woman standing at an East End market stall with a large barrel](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/1_IMG_0412.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
Annie and George owned a herbalist’s shop and sarsaparilla stall in Canning Town, East London.
![Black and white photograph of a little girl playing the guitar and a man playing an accordion.](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/04/8_IMG_0890.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
Vera playing the guitar and George playing the accordion.