Clare Rebecca Forsythe's page

Clare Rebecca, aged four days. Born 26th April 2000, Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary. Weighed 2lbs 1oz and arrived at 30 weeks 6 days.

Clare on the 10th August 2000 having a doze in the big bed. Weighing then about 9lbs 8ozs.

Right - Clare on the 9th December 2001 with mummy, going for a tram ride at Blackpool.

Left - On the 26th April 2003 Clare and everyone else celebrated her third birthday at Wylam Methodist Church Hall (on account of its superb built in soft play). Sumptuous catering was courtesy of the Jiggery Pokery from Mickley.

Left - Clare, a day or so from her first birthday. Playing on a roundabout for the first time. At Morpeth riverside park on the 24th April 2001. What a difference a year can make. A very happy little soul.

Clare was fortunate to know all four of her grandparents. Here she is visiting her grandpa Forsythe in Burwell in September 2003 when he was 87 (born 8th July 1916, died 18th March 2004).

23rd April 2006 and just a few days from her birthday and Clare managed to combine her own party at The Herb Patch, Ebchester with attending Leon Moger's footplate christening on the Tanfield Railway (that's his mum's Pauline legs in the background with even less of his own legs visible and the engine is the ex Backworth Austerity 49).

Two pictures from the Isle of Man in summer 2006. Clare on Niarbyl beach (such a western coast) and Clare on board the Port St Mary Lifeboat during the Gala Day and immediately before a shout came. Our exit from the vessel was swift.

Clare with best friend Charlie in July 2006 at Byland Abbey.

The 18th of February 2007 and we all made it to Chepstow Castle. That's a wild river there and none of us three had been there before. This picture is thanks to Jonathan Briggs an old friend from the Institute of Industrial Archaeology. "His" Caroline is left.

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July 19th 2004, and on board the Norfolk Wherry Albion below Potter Heigham. Clare has her first taste of boating on the occasion of scattering James Forsythe's ashes from Albion which meant so much to him and in a very special location near Ludham where he had lived in the 1930s. His eldest child, daughter Jayne is extreme left, she has known wherries very well indeed. The Vicar of Ludham (once of Durham St Chads) is right of her. James' widow Mary is bottom left, above her are Jayne's children Toby and Lisa (staring at camera). Robert Forsythe is right, with his wife Fiona above. Quite a family party for a special moment. Thank you to the Norfolk Wherry Trust.