The 1935 wedding notice for Lillian Margaret Thompson and Ernest "Billy" Barton notes in detail the outfits of the bride and her bridesmaid. Unfortunately, there is no photo to support the description either in the local Durham newspaper or in the hundreds and hundreds of family photographs, dating back to the early 1900s, that Lillian carefully stored.
I can only assume that Lillian destroyed any photographic record of her wedding that did exist, for this was not a marriage that stood the test of time. Quite why I don't know, although they do seem a curious coupling.
