1930s

Margery McKellen (mother) and Jean (sister)

1940s?

Denis Murray McKellen (father, 1905-1964)

1941

With my mother Margery Lois McKellen (nee Sutcliffe) in our back garden of 17, Parson’s Walk Wigan, Lancashire in the north of England

1944

Jean Lois McKellen (sister born 1934) in Wigan

1946?

With sister Jean in Mesnes Park opposite our house in Wigan

1947

Methodist Primary School, Wigan. Ian McKellen 5th from left in back row.

1948

Great Aunt Minnie, sister Jean, Grandad William Henry McKellen, father Denis, Ian McKellen (age 9) on a weekend ramble near Wigan

Photo by Margery McKellen (Mother)

1949

Methodist Primary School, Wigan. Ian McKellen 2nd from right in middle row.

1950s

Sister Jean

1950s

Denis Murray McKellen (father, 1905-1964)

1950s

Denis Murray McKellen

1952

On the beach at Temby, South Wales: Bolton School camp at Saundersfoot

1953

Garden of 34 Barrow Bridge Road, circa 1953. Top to bottom: Ian McKellen, David Hargreaves, Duncan Sculthorpe

1953

Garden of 34 Barrow Bridge Road, circa 1953. L to R: Duncan Sculthorpe, David Hargreaves, Ian McKellen

1954

Denis Murray McKellen (Father) and Gladys Irene Abraham — Wedding Day at Friends Meeting House, Liverpool

1955 (circa)

Gladys McKellen (step-mother) centre, with 3 siblings and sister-in-law outside family house 34, Barrow Bridge Road, Bolton,Lancashire. Left-right: Doris Abraham MBE, Herbert Abraham and his American wife Jo, Edna Gallantry (nee Abraham).

1960s

Denis Murray McKellen (father) on holiday in the Lake District with second wife Gladys

1980s

With sister Jean

1996

Reading to my nieces son Robert Blackman

2000

Robert and Andrew Blackman (sons of my niece Catherine Lois Blackman, nee Jones) play with great uncle Ian

2001

With Caitlin Jones, Andrew Blackman, Robert Blackman, and Curtis Jones (my sister Jeans grandchildren) at Christmas 2001