Gallery

Seventy years in pictures.
David does Dungarees
1946
Penarth Grammar School - 1954. David is 4th row back, 2nd from right
1954
Penarth Grammar School, from above - 1954
1954
Penarth Grammar School, Form 1
1955
Penarth Grammar School, Form 2 (David is on the far left, Brian Stone, 3rd from the right in the back row)
1956
Penarth Grammar School, Form 5, Mr Daniels (pure maths, applied maths) arms folded and Mr Parsons (Physics) far right)
1958
Penarth Grammar School, Form 4 (David 4th from right middle row, Brian Stone, 4th from left same row)
1958
Penarth Grammar School, class register
1959
Extract from the Penarthian - approx. 1960
1960
Penarth Grammer School Cricket 1st XI (L to R - Rob Grant, Neil Thomas, David Balston, Ricky Flear, Pete Cross, Chris Edwards, Dave Weber, Colin Williams, Peter Thomas, Sir! (Alan Carter), Mervyn Tetley(?), Graham Gibbon, Hugh Billot, Scorer?)
1960
David, Peter Bourne, and Brian Stone, outside their university digs, Bristol
1961
David in his parent's garden.
1962
David and Heather, before they were married, taken on David's 21st birthday
1963
David and Heather's growing family, one more to go!
1971
Bines & Balston Sand Castle - August 1972
1972
David's PhD graduation, Southampton University
1972
David and Heather's growing family with his Mum Enid.
1972
David and Howard with their growing families.
1973
David, Lorna, Heather and Phil with Ceri(on David's shoulders), Sian & Marc in some funky red wellies at Butser Hill - June 1976
1976
David, Jay, and Theska, USA
1978
David and Thesca, USA
1978
Family Walk
1979
Lorna, David, Heather & Phil - June 1979
1979
David, Heather, Heather's Mum & Dad, Heather's sister-in-law Lorna in woods, near Sparsholt Spring 1980
1980
Heather, Ceri, David, Lorna and Sian on Butser Hill - Spring 1980
1980
Family photo, David's Mum and Dad's garden (Back row: L to R - Karen, Howard, David's Mum Enid, David. Front row: Marc, Gareth, Dafydd, Heather, Sian with Ceri and Mairwen in front.
1981
Family portrait
1983
David, Heather with his Mum and Dad, USA
1995
David's official Intercai picture
1995
David bonds with a butterfly on a visit to a butterfly farm with Judy & Norman Allen, Atlanta
1996
"It's never too early to learn" - David teaches Ethan the art of the perfect swing.
2001
David, Heather, Sian and Ethan, walking in Cornwall
2001
David, Roge and Ethan, making sand castles on Trevone beach, Cornwall
2001
David, Heather, Roge and Ethan, walking in Cornwall
2001
David and Ethan, golf lessons in Cornwall
2001
David and Heather in Eden Project, Cornwall
2001
David making sand castles on Trevone beach
2001
Intercai Christmas Party - December 2002
2002
David receiving his retirement gift
2002
Intercai Christmas Party
2002
David with Archie at Christmas
2003
Gareth and Carla's visit to the UK - David, Heather, Howard, Karen, Gareth and Carla. Outside Howard and Karen's house in Coychurch, Wales
2004
David and Heather post flaming sambucas at Ceri and Lenny's wedding at The Cradle of Humankind, South Africa - April 2005
2005
Cai designs and builds the Primes treehouse, Easter weekend
2007
Balston family photo. Back row - Roger, Sian, Lenny, Ceri & Marc. Front row - Archie, Ethan, David, Heather, Abigail & Colleen - December 2007.
2007
The Balston clan - Ethan, baby Abigail, David, Heather, Bramble, Ceri, Lenny(Mika on the way), Marc, Colleen, Archie & Sian on a Christmas walk on Old Sarum - December 2007
2007
Ceri & David changing a punctured tyre on the way to The Caverns in Drakensberg, South Africa - November 2008
2008
Heather, Mika and David on a walk at The Caverns in Drakensberg, South Africa - November 2008
2008
David preparing for a game of bowls at The Caverns in Drakensberg, South Africa - November 2008
2008
David & Heather on Trevone Beach, Cornwall - 2009
2009
David in Turkey - 2009
2009
David demonstrates his natural grand parenting instincts with the latest addition to the Balston clan, Lizzie - 2009.
2009
David and Alan Eyres at Stratford sub Castle Guild Party - 2011
2011
David and Mika, Dorking - 2011
2011
David and Heather, Penarth Grammar School reunion - 2011
2011
Constable trail plaque unveiling - 2011
2011
David and Mika, Dorking - 2011
2011
David and Heather, Penarth Grammar School reunion - 2011
2011
Heather, David & Mika on a walk in Grand Bornand, France - July 2012
2012
David and Abigail sharing an ice cream moment!
2012