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Mothers' union

Five generations of women are pictured together in this 1870 snap sent in by John Baird from Arizona.

He said: "The photo was taken in Alloa and left to me by my mother who died two years ago.

"The baby is my great-grandmother.

"I remember being told that the 'old lady' on the right smoked a corncob pipe and drank homemade spirits all her life - she lived to be 105.

"I believe this story because my grandmother made it to 103 - no pipe or homemade spirits though."

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