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Any idea of a date??
« on: Monday 07 January 08 16:34 GMT (UK) »
This is a photo which was printed on a postcard. I am related to one of these ladies. Although I know I am unlikely to ever find out which one, can anyone maybe put a rough date to the picture?

It comes from a collection of my Mothers photographs, so it would have been taken in the Scottish borders somewhere.....

Aren't the hats fabulous!!!

Thanks!

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« Reply #1 on: Monday 07 January 08 16:43 GMT (UK) »
The hair styles looks 1900-1908 to me but I think the hats look later. So I'll say 1905-1910 to be on the safe side  :-\

Lovely photo. i'm sure I've seen the person back left before.

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« Reply #2 on: Monday 07 January 08 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Tx
Here is a cleanup, not that it needed much doing to it :-\ :-\
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« Reply #3 on: Monday 07 January 08 17:05 GMT (UK) »

 I'm sure I've seen the person back left before.


really  :o ..... let me know if you remember.... maybe it would be too good to be true to find out who any of the ladies are.

1905-1910 may be close, as there were three other pictures with this one, all postcards, which I can roughly date as I know who is in them and when they were born.

How old do you think they are? 20? With that date it is likely they are mill workers (all my family at that time were).

Thanks for the clean up Mudge  :D

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« Reply #4 on: Monday 07 January 08 17:14 GMT (UK) »
I'd say late teens and early twenties.

That face - I'm sure i've either seen on this site or have done a restore on  :-\

Did any of them go to Australia?

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« Reply #5 on: Monday 07 January 08 17:56 GMT (UK) »
There is a chance that one of them went to New Zealand.... as My g.grandmother and her sister (both about the right age for the photo but neither are in it) used to receive things from a sister/cousin in New Zealand.... clutching at straws arent I.......

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 07 January 08 18:45 GMT (UK) »
I go along with Gadget.

The hats are big, but not enormous and there is still evidence of the puffed up sleeves at the shoulder - 1905 +/- 3.

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« Reply #7 on: Monday 07 January 08 21:17 GMT (UK) »
She is very haunting - I'm sure I've seen a photo of her before:


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Re: Any idea of a date??
« Reply #8 on: Monday 07 January 08 23:41 GMT (UK) »
I'd stick at 1910, I think.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks