Childhood Photo Challenge – Me Aged About 11
@arthurchappell (44998)
Preston, England
February 10, 2016 12:46pm CST
The childhood photo challenge was set by @kevin1877uk
Someone suggested I must have looked cute as a child but here is proof I looked positively Satanic, almost like Damien from the Omen Movies.
This photo was taken circa.1973 at a Butlins holiday camp, either Pwellheli in Wales or Ayr in Scotland. We used both camps for family vacations over the years of my mid-childhood.
Though on holiday I look positively miserable here, and I’m clutching a book. I’m also pressed into posh clothes and I still had hair then. Shriek.
Arthur Chappell
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Feb 16
There are a few more recent shots of me without the beard too
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Feb 16
How our parents made us dress and style our hair was not our faults. I once sported a pixie hair style. My mother said it was all the rave. I prefered my hair to be long, and now wear it this way.
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@celticeagle (168369)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Feb 16
So you could have been a double for the actor who played Daimen in the movies. I am glad I don't have the equipment to make this particular picture available on line. It is a school picture taken in grade school. I was maybe ten and wearing a red and white poka dot dress. My bangs had been recently cut by my aunt. She couldn't get them straight so kept cutting. They ended up about an inch long. So embarrassing.
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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10 Feb 16
Awesome photo, Bullins, I been to the one in Ayr that would be about 78/79 I think maybe.
Thank you for the mention :)
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Feb 16
@kevin1877uk later than the years we went - we later went to their Skegness camp in the early 80's too
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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10 Feb 16
@arthurchappell Yeah been the Skegness one a few times when my kids were younger and the at Minehead.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
11 Feb 16
Just like @kevin1877uk 's photo of him in younger years , you have a hairdo like that of the Beatles . 
But why do you say that you look positively satanic in that picture ? 
But why do you say that you look positively satanic in that picture ? 3 people like this
@Masamune_Muramasa (18)
• Bhubaneshwar, India
11 Feb 16
This is me, 20 years ago !
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
11 Feb 16
brightly coloured photo - really nicely captured
@divalounger (6117)
• United States
10 Feb 16
I love this challenge--I was unsure where to post mine, so I posted mine in response to Kevin's original post, but this is fun to look at everyone's pictures!
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@Tampa_girl7 (50541)
• United States
11 Feb 16
Thanks for sharing. It's really fun looking at these photos.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
11 Feb 16
You are so funny, in thinking you looked devilish. We all looked different back then to state it mildly. I hated the way my mother kept my hair when I was too young to stop her. Most of us still look funny at our school graduations before college or university.
Looks like you were being forced to do something you didn't particularly enjoy. Is that a church you are in?
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
11 Feb 16
no, no church - just my Mum insisting I looked smart and not scruffy all the time. I was beginning to feel too old for our traditional family holidays at that time - I began to find holiday camps boring
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
10 Feb 16
Nice photo, yea you sure don't look like you are having a good time
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