Readers' favourite photos of their parents

Eve Brown: "They were both 17 when they met and this was the very next day … love at first sight." Photograph: Eve Brown

sks2012: "Lucky enough to have 2 sets of parents - this is Ken and Beatrice. The photo was taken weeks before he died of cancer. His blue tweed jacket is hanging in my wardrobe still." Photograph: sks2012

reja2005: "My Mum in her early nursing days circa 1961 in East London where she completed her training at St Andrews Hospital." Photograph: reja2005

bgerrish: "This was a candid photo taken mid-conversation with Dad. This is Dad's banter face so he'd have been taking the mick in some way. Mum, not interested in boys being boys, is throwing tennis balls for their two dogs who are out of shot." Photograph: bgerrish

RobertAShaw: "This is one of the first photographs my Dad took of my Mum, Rosa, in the early 60s. He followed her up a mountain in Salzburg, breaking away from his pals in the Huddersfield Rucksack Club (and never regretted it!)." Photograph: RobertAShaw

Gailkav: "My parents were travellers and showmen, and played the carnivals in Ireland after the war with the swing boats and their sharpshooting act. I was about two when this photo was taken." Photograph: Gailkav

AngusStewart: "This was my mum and dad before getting up in the morning, they were married for 49 years and chatted away to each other for a couple of hours each morning before getting up and cooking breakfast. They used to wake up at 5.30, breakfast was at 8.30, they said there was a lot to talk about after 49 years of marriage." Photograph: AngusStewart

Porthrepta: "Sheltering from the wind in the garden – note dad's informal get-up and mum's inevitable ciggy. This was in 1957, when mum was 48 and dad 53. Evidently the budgie was also in need of a bit of fresh air." Photograph: Porthrepta

RedCert: "We eventually persuaded our mom, after 40 years of Christmas Dinners, to add a third party product to the dessert menu – it got the home cooking care though." Photograph: RedCert

ViktorDelhi: "They are in standing in the porch of their flat admiring their garden. On the left is neighbour Jack." Photograph: ViktorDelhi

mites: "On a visit from Delhi, where I grew up as a child. At my grandparents who lived in Big Street, Triplicane, Chennai. Everyone who knew him was in awe of his personality, good looks and a caustic tongue. He was a most affectionate grandfather and died when I was 8 – this was taken on the roof garden of a house, now long demolished." Photograph: mites

claudia_moeller: "My Mum (68) using her new iPad and my Dad (77) reading the papers in their conservatory. The iPad was a present for their 45th wedding anniversary last week. Neither of them has ever used a computer or mobile phone before but have since learned how to send text messages and FaceTime me in London." Photograph: claudia_moeller

dollydewdrops: "This is my mum and dad, Ken & Pam, enjoying a snack at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, sometime in the 1980s. They always took my sister and me to National Trust properties on holidays or for days out, something I now enjoy doing myself. My mum died after a long illness in 1998." Photograph: dollydewdrops