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Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« on: Tuesday 09 August 16 23:15 BST (UK) »
This is another photo form my great grandmother's set; it's a complete mystery and I would really appreciate thoughts on dating it and on where it may have been taken.  Perhaps someone will recognise the type of architecture.  It certainly doesn't look like Glasgow where many of the photos in the set were taken!  Some of the photographs are from Australia so I wonder if this one could be too.  Sadly the back is blank and there is no sign of a photographer's name.  I can see something is written on the house at the top; I think it perhaps says "Clifton/Clinton Cottage" but it's very hard to read. 

Any thoughts greatly appreciated and if anyone wants to clean it up or colourise it that would be great.  Thanks in advance.
Leonard/Lennon/Lennan (Lanarkshire, Ireland, Australia) Kelly (Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire) Campbell (Leith, Glasgow, New York, Australia) McMaster (Stirlingshire, Ireland) Cullen (Lanarkshire)

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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 07:21 BST (UK) »
Hi,
These houses look very similar to one that my great grandparents lived in in Richmond, Vic. in the late 1860/70s.
Sorry cant be more help.
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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 10:24 BST (UK) »
My effort,  :)

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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 11:13 BST (UK) »
The women's dress styles suggest an 1870's date & probably mid -late decade.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 11:18 BST (UK) »
Looks like it is or was in the Clifton Hill area of Victoria

for example ... 112 Spensley St, Clifton Hill VIC 3068

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-37.7873554,145.0014823,3a,75y,354.95h,83.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1pd6bN4B2_JL2XTev-ontg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en
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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 11:26 BST (UK) »
Definitely Clifton Hill...some more here:

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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 13:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much everyone for solving this mystery - I always thought it would be Australia but to narrow it right down a a particular place in the late 1870s is fantastic  :)

This photograph belonged to my great grandmother; she had a brother who emigrated to Australia but I've always thought this would be too early to pertain to him and his family as he didn't go out until the early 1880s and that seems to have been borne out.  She had an aunt, her father's sister, who emigrated in 1852 though and who ended up in Melbourne specifically North Melbourne (Hotham).  I think it must be descendants of hers in the photo; she had a number of children and by the late 1870s several of them had children of their own so I suspect the women are either my great great grand aunt's daughters or daughters-in-law and three of her grandchildren.  I'll probably never know for sure but it seems the best explanation.

Thanks also for the restore Yvonne  :)
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Re: Help to Date and Clean Up Mystery Photo of "Clifton/Clinton Cottage"
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 10 August 16 16:50 BST (UK) »
Here is a restore from me and also an attempt at colouring it
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