Penny Watts responded to the original article about Annie Shean.
"I was so excited to see the article about Annie Shean. Annie was my Great Aunt (we called her Auntie Minnie) the photo (Whitsun) in the article I can name everyone bar one of the people. I share the same birthday as Beatrice (Auntie Beattie) and recently came across a letter saying how delighted she was that I was born on her birthday. We have many family photos as Horace Shean's Father-in-law (William Sutton) was a very keen amateur photographer. Even my Dad David Shean is in the front row of the photograph. My Grandfather Horace (back row, 2nd from left) was born at the Royal Mint, my father also worked there for a time, eventually working for Beechams. I also have a photo of John Shean at Bow Bridge in the barge builders yard, I understand his wife was very strong and good at hooking drunk people out of the river Thames! My father was a very keen naturalist, and spent a lot of his youth enjoying the flora and fauna of Epping Forest. He moved to Cranleigh in Surrey in 1963 where my mother still lives, here he developed 3 1/2 acres of land as a conservation area, planting many trees." Penny Watts(nee Shean)
Written and researched by Raymond Small and Elaine Wiltshire. Thank you to Penny Watts for sending extra pictures to add to the story.

