This photograph was probably taken in about 1933. Jim and Ann were born, bred and died in the old parish of Great Waltham, Essex. They lived much of their married life in Ford End. Here they are standing outside their cottage on the Dunmow Road. During their lifetime, in about 1870, Ford End became a separate parish with a new church, St John the Evangelist.  Apparently they thought the new church had been built as a status symbol by the local gentry, not for the benefit of the local people, and continued to worship at the chapel. Many years before, Ann's grandfather, Henry STOWERS, had been one of the early members of the congregation of the Little Waltham Independent Chapel. James and Ann died within a few months of each other in 1945. He was 90 and she was 86.