Rosalie Riddick-Hall nee Powell Granny Hall, my great great grandmother, not Rosalie, who was my great grandmother, looks a little like the Duchess in Tenniel's picture in Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps that is unkind, but there is slight resemblance. She sits on the beach on a deckchair in a heavy full length dress. She is wearing what looks like an upturned bowl on her head. The hat is covered in a scarf which is tied around her neck in a big bow. She looks at the photographer unsmiling; judgmental; through a pair of gold wire-rimmed glasses. On one side of her is Auntie Connie with a spade, on the other side is great uncle Philip. Arthur with walking stick in boots flanks her on the right. Pretty and thoughtful, in a double breasted coat with a white bonnet, a beautiful dark skinned young woman stands on the left: Gertrude's daughter. Granny Hall's grand daughter. Great, Great Granny hall was intelligent. When Captain Riddick left her he provided for her but not well ...