Laura and Grandma Clunie

I love this photo of Laura Ann and Laura Ann, grandmother and grandaughter. Little Laura had been ill with scarlet fever and her grandmother took her away to Morecombe. Laura Ann Clunie, the grandmother, was a widow by this time. The photo must date about 1942.
Laura Ann was born Ashman in Yorkshire and moved to Salford in the high days of the industrial revolution. Her husband, Edward Clunie served in WW1 and although he survived warfare he never really recovered from the effects of the gas. He died in 1928. Laura Ann lived until 1953 and seems to have been a jolly, enterprising sort of woman.
I especially like the Victorian gent peering from behind them. He looks straight out of a Lowry painting.