Michael P. Nicolaidi, early photo, date unknown. Note the studio apparently very prestigious!
Ralli Bros gathering Xmas day 1902, in India (Karachi or Calcutta). From left to right standing: N. Zalichis, E. Ralli[s], G. Dimitriadis, Zifos, Amninos; seated: Calvocoressi, Petrochinos, K. Valettas, Nicholas Andreas Nicolaidi[s].
Close up of Nicholas Andreas Nicolaidi in the same gathering.
The Ralli team, Karachi, India 1902. From left to right: Demis Petrochochino, Petro Vlasto, T. Xylis.
Michael Panioty Nicolaidi c. 1908.
Nancy Nicolaidi née Willoughby-Crisp c.1908.
Emily Howard (nanny) date and location of photo unknown.
Photo taken 1908 in Croydon, Surrey, showing a group who attended the civil wedding of the Nicolaidis but who is who? Only 3 people can be positively identified in the group taken at a pub in Sanderstead, Surrey. These are my great Grandpa William Crisp [back left], Frederick Drummond Niblett [likely a Paterson relative] in the centre, and the chap in button up brogues is most likely to be Eric or Stanley Paterson [most likely Eric as he was grandfathers business partner at the time of his marriage]. Their address at this time was given as ‘Holmby House’ Sanderstead owned by the Langridge family. The photo [actually a postcard] is in poor condition having been carried through war etc. by one of my Great uncle for nearly 20 years!
Nicolaidi family with baby Xenia and nurse Rose who preceeded Emily Howard c.1909 location Smyrna.
Picture taken 1917-18 location uncertain, but either Craven Hill Gardens, London (Grandfather’s former house) or Tunbridge Wells, Kent. From left to right is Grandmother (standing) Nancy Nicolaidi, Grandfather Michael Nicolaidi (seated), Willoughby, Stephanie and Xenia Nicolaidi.
1917-18 taken in Tunbridge Wells, grandparents’ later house, named the ‘Acropolis’ on Eden Road. The family moved there in 1917 from London to escape the WW1 Zeppelin bombings. From left to right: Ned the gardener with Jacko the dog, Ethel Harrington, Nancy Nicolaidi, Xenia Nicolaidi, Stephanie Nicolaidi, Herbert Harrington, Willoughby Nicolaidi. The dog, Jacko was the mascot of the Tunbridge Wells Regiment known as the ‘Buffs’. He was brought back from Flanders in WW1 after being abandoned and was given to my mother.
The Nicolaidi family c.1920. Grandparents are not present, presumably died. Nanny and Ranee, the eldest, present with 3 siblings. Ranee was a lot older than my mother Stephanie Nicolaidi (seated) but was from a previous marriage of my grandmother’s. Trouble is that I can find no record of this marriage and I suspect that it was in Smyrna or India.
Tunbridge Wells, left to right, Stephanie, either Gerald Paterson or Jim Blyth (on horse), Willoughby and Xenia.
Ranee Philips taken with her son Peter c.1930.
image courtesy of Chas Hill
Prince Scipione Borghese taken in 1907 when he was on the Paris to Peking run which he won and photo was published in L’automobile [or was it Autocar?]. Borghese is to the left and the chap smoking a cigarette is his co pilot Luigi Barzini. Close relation Prince Don Livio Guiseppe Borghese’s daughther Valerie married Albert Keun of Smyrna.
image courtesy of Chas Hill
The picture that was drawn by Lulu Keyser, neice of Agnes Keyser, has been kept since then by the family. Lulu was autistic but in those days she was descibed as ‘imbecilic’! Lulu was a childhood friend of my mother and the drawing was done around 1918/19 at my grandparent’s house in Tunbridge Wells. Unfortunately there is some damage caused by a bomb blast in WW2 when my parents lived in Chelmsford, Essex. It was drawn on a brown paper bag because of the lack of paper during WWII.