Remembering Grandad on his birthday

It was my Grandad's birthday this week. He would have been 94. Although his name was Frank, he was always known as Jim. I have no idea why. No one seems to remember.

On Mum's bookshelf there are many pictures of him, which I will share over the coming months.

For his birthday, I'm going to put up one of my favourite photos of him.

Jim is about 8 years old and sitting in a garden in Ipswich. I don't know who Doug and Denis were - my Grandad was an only child. They have some charming metal toys which they are showing off to the camera. Two of them look like they might be in school uniform. The shadows look long, perhaps they were playing together in the garden after school one day when someone (my great grandad?) took a snap.

When I look at it, I see my own 7 year old boy in that  little boy with the big grin, captured on film in the late 1920s.

A handsome fellow from Norwich

Another delve into the Victorian album from Mum's bookshelf, and this time I wonder who this handsome chap could be.

He was surely a relative of mine since the picture was taken in Norwich but which of the great greats he might be is anyone's guess.

No date and no clue as to the sitter, but it was probably taken around about 1892, or maybe a little earlier as the Norfolk CC website suggests 1888, since the purple stamp on the beautifully presented cabinet photo indicates that the photo was taken in Gavin and Banger's St Giles' Studio (they had three studios in Norwich , according to earlyphotographers.org).

The old White Lion Street can be seen, as my great great might have seen it as he walked around the centre of Norwich, on this picture from the Norfolk CC website

Any further information about sitter or photographer gratefully received.