Date for Photo of Drake Family

[redducky]

I am wondering if anyone can narrow down a date on this photo by what they are wearing. They were a very poor London family.

It's of my great grandfather James John Drake on the left and we presume the woman in front of him is his wife, but which one, he had two, both called Annie. The first, Annie Sweeney absconded from the London workhouse in 1906 leaving behind her children, never to be seen again.  The second, Annie Smith was with my great grandfather from 1905 till she died in 1939. They both had a child to him in 1905, one in March and one in December.

[Handypandy]

Clean up....

[Milliepede]

She doesn't look like an absconder to me. 

How did he marry the second wife if the first one just absconded 

[jim1]

& if he had 2 children by 2 different women in the same year would mean narrowing the dates to months rather than years which is impossible to do.

[Regorian]

These people don't look poor in the least. Well dressed etc.

[sami]

The two men look very much alike - could they be brothers? Does that help at all?

sami

[redducky]

Handy Pandy - Thank you so much for the clean up.  Looks so much sharper.
Millepede - Can't find a marriage to the second Annie, so they just lived together for the rest of their lives.  She doesn't look like an absconder which makes me think it's the second Annie.  The first Annie  and their children have about 30 workhouse records and on occasions she was released back to the police.
Regorian - I wonder if they rented the clothes for the portrait.  They were extremely poor, he spent a lot of time in and out of prison and his wife and children were in and out of the workhouse.
Sami - He did have one younger brother but I thought possible a son.

[jim1]

Photographers didn't do rent-a-suit.
They didn't have the time, space or capital.

[redducky]

Jim1 - thanks for that I wasn't sure whether they would.