Historical information

Photos belonged to Ada POLSON (nee BELLION), Margaret BRIDE's mother.

Margaret says: It was taken in the back yard of my grandparents house in Rouse Street, Port Melbourne; next but one to St Joseph’s Church, one of the 2 blocks of land Peter LIBBIS’ house is built on. I think this was taken about 1917 when my mother would have been about 25. I have thought perhaps it was taken to send to my uncle Albert who was serving in France at that time. . Janet Adams was a friend of my grandparents and boarded with them in the years c.1900 to her death of influenza in 1919.

Physical description

From the booklet "Four immigrant families and some of their descendants" by Margaret Bride

Four people posing for a photograph in the backyard of the Bellion family house in Rouse Street, next but one to St Joseph’s Church. L-R (standing) Janet Adams, Ada Florence Bellion; (seated) Albert Reginald Bellion, Letty Bellion.