push bike

Every picture tells a story, season 3, picture 11:

We have seen various horses in this series and some cars, but not very many bikes. So I'm very grateful for this rural idyll with mother and daughter (Martha Stephan and Hedwig Geppert) pushing one. As they got separated on eviction from Silesia and were only reunited in 1953, this must be in the mid-1950s in Westphalia, near the village of Vardingholt, where Martha had landed in 1946 and Hedwig joined her later.

Note that both women were quite short (Hedwig measured 160 cm, Martha 147 cm, according to their ID cards), so the bike appears too big for either of them to ride, maybe it belonged to whoever took the photo? We know that Hedwig started using a moped late in life.

Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

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Season 3 so far:

1. family holiday
2. play time
3. fashion show
4. bakery to butcher's shop
5. the Hamborn brotherhood
6. all grown up
7. sisters in the snow
8. the last holiday
9. village life
10. family reshuffle
11. push bike

The Mastodon thread for season 3 is here.

You can find Season 2 entries in this thread on Mastodon (complete now!) or via the list at the bottom of the last entry of the season (and also at the bottom of the first entry of this season).

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.