1910, July 12
Douglas, age: 1 year, 5 months
Location: Edgar & Son photography studio, London Road South, Lowestoft

1912, April 3
Douglas (aged 3 yrs 2 m) with his sister Freda.
Location: Edgar & Son photography studio, London Road South, Lowestoft

The Spread Eagle pub

On the right side of the Harding’s grocery shop on the Hight Street in Lowestoft, Suffolk (the shop is now a hairdresser) the Spread Eagle pub now has a different name: The Wheatsheaf. Douglas Harding referred to this pub in his writings.

During the First World War
The Harding family
Top row; Edgar Harding (father) –– Geoffrey Harding (brother) –– Annie Harding (mother)
At the front: Douglas Harding –– Freda Harding (sister)
This photograph was taken during the First World War. It was a family portrait, taken in case Edgar Harding had to join the Army and then did not return from the War. (He did not join the Army.)

c. 1923,
Douglas Harding aged 14.
Lowestoft.
In his school uniform, out in nature, drawing.

February 1925
Lowestoft secondary school
Douglas would be just turning 16. Douglas is on the top row, second from the left.
On the back of the photograph are the names of the students, written in by Douglas. 

Olley & Haward , 5 Queen St, Great Yarmouth.

This is the office where Douglas apprenticed as an architect before going to study at the University of London.

1927 -- At the seaside, probably Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth.
Douglas (aged 18) with Herbert Chaplin, Mrs Macminn (family friends)

1928
Easter at Douglas’s grandmother’s in Colchester, Essex.
Geoffrey Harding, Freda Harding, Douglas Harding.

1928. Douglas Harding’s paternal grandmother, Elizabeth, is centre front.
She is with her six grandchildren. Douglas is centre back (aged 19). On the far left is his sister Freda, on the far right is his brother Geoffrey. The other children, the three younger girls, are the daughters of Douglas’s Aunt Mabel. This photograph was taken at Easter on the lawn of Douglas’s grandmother’s house in Colchester, Essex.

c. 1929 - Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Douglas Harding (aged 20) with his Uncle Edmond. Harold Edmond Ward was the husband of Douglas’s paternal aunt, Aunt Mabel––who was the sister of Douglas’s father, Edgar. Edmond was a tailor in Stowmarket.

Douglas's parents - May 2, 1929