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Hey, these are looking much better - I can make out some of the gentlemen's faces more clearly.
Thank you everyone for your hard work! 

Wiggy I think you might be onto something. I noticed the buttonholes and thought 'wedding' - but it doesn't look like the typical family group you would expect!
In 1891 he was just a "Coachman", by 1901 the census specifies "Coachman (not domestic)". I take it this means in 1901 he didn't work for a Lord of the Manor with a big house? But that's not to say he didn't previously (I would date this photo to the 1890s? Thomas was born in 1854). My great grandmother wrote the following about him in her memoir:

"Father was against girls going into service – he hated seeing the gentry, as he called them, making the servants wait on them so when he had to take them out in the carriage [...]"

Which might explain why he doesn't look too thrilled to be there! (I know, nobody looks happy in old photos.)

What was his occupation, Could they be gentlemen farmers?
Carol

Good thought, but he was a coachman.

Thanks for posting this, I hadn't even heard of this project until now! Now it'll have to be a mad dash to get my great grandfather and other relatives' "lives" fleshed out.

Thank you to everyone for the help, nearly everything has been solved!

For any newcomers to the thread, I'm still trying to work out the following passage. It's a pretty tricky one, I'll grant you, as some of the words seem to have been squeezed in as a correction.

was not happy working from 9 till 5, sitting all day, sewing up seams and putting bones in collars and seam? ?(blouse?)? & braid? all round skirts. I was able to persuade mother to let me leave – so I went – keeping on

Nothing to do with reading the handwriting but depending on whether your great grandmother lived in Sussex I think the Revd Streatfeild she mentions was the father of Noel Streatfeild who wrote Ballet Shoes and other books.

Yes I think you're right. She lived in St Leonards, where said Reverend was the vicar from 1902, so it's an exact fit. He became Bishop of Lewes, not Brighton as she wrote, but I'll forgive her that as she was writing ca. 50 years after he died!