Love the ancestor baby photo on the cover this issue? So did we! This gorgeous smiling tot is the winner of our recent #FT Baby competition, after reader Lisa Spooner, from Cornwall, entered the photo via our Facebook page.
We had lots of truly wonderful entries from your family photo collections, but Lisa’s really stood out. She told us: ‘This is my mum, Irene Claire Wiseman, who sadly passed away in July of last year, just a few weeks short of her 80th birthday. Born on 7 August 1936, the picture appears to have been taken in preparation of her enrolment onto the local Salvation Army Cradle roll – we have the original large print photo, and the Cradle roll paper certificate with the photo featured – I love the fact it has been coloured! None of us had seen this photo (or the SA certificate) until after she’d died, when it was found stashed away in the top of a wardrobe.’