John Collings Parkyn (1839-1917) in about 1880. Businessman, artist, and devoted grandfather

Postcard from John Collings Parkyn to his granddaughter Lilian Parkyn, c. 1908. It is of the village of Uley, in Gloucestershire, where John C. and Elizabeth (Grigg) Parkyn lived in a house called “St. Maur”. As he describes, St. Maur is the tall building behind the trees.
Photo courtesy of A Hoskins

Postcard from Uley, Gloucestershire to Canada, c. 1908. John Collings Parkyn to his granddaughter Lilian.
Photo courtesy of A Hoskins

"Dr Cane's Academy", drawn in in 1906 by John Collings Parkyn (1839-1917) for his granddaughter, Lilian. As he had attended public school (boarding school to us Americans) as a boy, I have a hunch he knew the eponymous "Dr. Cane" (see graffiti on wall)! Another John Collings Parkyn pen and ink postcard drawing, sent from Gloucestershire to Canada (Ingersoll, Ontario) in 1906, shortly after Lilian - with her parents and siblings - arrived there. I suspect JCP intended that little girl to be Lilian, the boys her younger brothers Ernest and Trevor.
Couresy of A Hoskins