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Dolly Chown is wearing an embroidered green silk dress

Jack was on holiday from School where he had broken his nose in a boxing accident

Jack Chown is wearing the uniform of a second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps

Jack is wearing the Uniform of Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Soon after this photograph Jack was killed in action, First World War.

Jack is wearing his sailor uniform with gold buttons and sailor hat name not visible, Dolly is wearing coat with fur trimmed collar

Dolly is wearing her fur trimmed long coat , she is only as tall as the hamper

Dolly and Jack are riding a donkey in the snow in a field near the Townnshend House

Dolly and Jack are riding a donkey in the snow in a field near the Townnshend House

Dolly is wearing wooly leggings with elastic under the instep of her shoes

Dolly is wearing a dress with embroidered smocking and unusual sandals for the time

Marion Ash was an excellent needlewoman. She left the Chowns in 1906 when Jack started School

Sam Rundle was Vicar of Godolphin and godfather to Jack & dolly Chown. Dolly said"He always wore a frock coat & top hat which he considered to be 'proper' dress and continued to do so long after they went out of fashion"

Another lady is visible through the window sitting within possibly Mrs Rundle

Dolly and Jack were born at the Townshend House. The cart on the right is in front of Herbert Wynne's the Blacksmith's house.

note the pince-nez eyeglasses. Dr Roberts had been a fellow student of Dr Chown at St Mary's Hospital

note the pince-nez eyeglasses. Dr Roberts had been a fellow student of Dr Chown at St Mary's Hospital

note the pince-nez eyeglasses. Dr Roberts had been a fellow student of Dr Chown at St Mary's Hospital