My grandparents, Bill and Emma Taylor with baby William, their first child. 

Nan was born in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in 1886 and granddad in Greenwich in 1883. They met in the Greenwich foot tunnel and were married by special licence a few weeks later, that was in 1904 and Nan was just 17 years old.

They came to live in Hermit Road, Canning Town in 1905 where baby William was born and sadly died 15 weeks later. They had another fifteen children, one of whom also  died in infancy. My mum who was the youngest was born in 1928.

Photo: Private family collection