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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Flickgirl on Tuesday 09 August 16 23:15 BST (UK)
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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.
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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.
Cheers,
Di
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My effort, :)
Yvonne
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Agree with diesse ...
http://thinkpropertyco.com/2015/12/15/7-tips-for-hiring-the-best-property-management-company/
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The women's dress styles suggest an 1870's date & probably mid -late decade.
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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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Definitely Clifton Hill...some more here:
Link (http://static.domain.com.au/domainblog/uploads/2016/04/18141500/2_go8mij.jpg)
Clifton Cottage (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-37.7932154,144.9891622,3a,32.6y,182.18h,86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-eaY97RTq2eWOY9nQ0xuag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
And some interesting history here: Clicky linky (http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/93617/download-report)
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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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Here is a restore from me and also an attempt at colouring it
Pat
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Thanks very much Pat - those are both lovely :)
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A search on Trove shows that there were many dwellings around Melbourne named Clifton Cottage, so unfortunately having that name doesn't necessarily link it to Clifton Hill. One shows up on Trove in Arden St, Hotham, but I can't see it in Street View.
M :)
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When I was trawling Streetview for the above links, I saw around four properties that I suspect had the name Clifton Cottage. I came to the conclusion that it was most likely the generic name that the builder had used to identify the style of the property (much as builders do today when selling 'off plan').
Wiki informs that the area Clifton Hill was named by the developer after one of the first properties in the area, Clifton Farm. I think that its a fair assumption that the Clifton Cottages name was initially based on this.
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Thanks for the extra information matthewj64 - very interesting that there was one in Hotham too. My grt grt grand aunt died in her house on High Street, Hotham in 1903. Her husband William Johnston ran a foundry in North Melbourne that he set up in 1856. His foundry cast the hands on the North Melbourne Town Hall clock. The Foundry did not succeed and shut down in 1859; there was a fire on 25 Feburary 1859 and 50 houses and the foundry were destroyed.
It makes sense for the name to have come from Clifton Farm handypandy. It would be amazing if this particular "Clifton Cottage" survives somewhere to this day as some of the others seem to. Thanks again.