OMCE UPON A TIME (THE 1930S)

 
This slightly damaged 1930s photo of my father ("Jimmy" with receding hairline) and one of his younger brothers ("Lydie" ne Michael Lydon Lally) evokes the "Peaky Blinders" style to me (also my father "made book" and this uncle spent time in a juvenile reformatory and both were grammar school dropouts). I once ran into Johnny "Rotten" Lydon at a party in LA and we discussed our families and discovered the Lydons and Lallys came from nearby in County Galway and that we were probably related.