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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can you date "Eva" please?
« on: Sunday 04 March 12 17:46 GMT (UK)  »
I've been sent this photo, with a copy of the reverse.  The labeling on the back may have been helpful when written but is now hopelessly ambiguous as the Mum and Grandmother referred to are long gone.  Hill and Wakeling in Plymouth were active from the 1880s to about 1938 so not sure whether that is helpful or not.  Any clues as to date to help identify little Eva please?




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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / dating help please
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 23:51 BST (UK)  »
We have agreed to disagree about who this might be in our family.  One view is that it is Thomas Middleton, who would be my great great grandfather 1805 - 1873 who was a charcoal burner from West Malling, Kent. My view is that it cannot be because the photo looks to be much later than that.  The man in the photo cannot be older than about 45 and that cannot be a 1850 photo. Also those hands don't look like those of a manual labourer, and given that photographs would have been expensive, would a charcoal burner have been able to afford them?

Does anyone know when the photographer  -  David Nottle  -  was active?  To me the clothes look late Victorian.  Can anyone offer a more accurate date?


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / restoration please of a much loved aunt
« on: Saturday 16 July 11 19:26 BST (UK)  »
This is Topsy Georgina Middleton  1875 - 1957.  She was one of the great characters of her generation, a shrewd business woman in the mans world of haulage, and my father's favourite aunt.  He said she instinctively knew what boys wanted! This photo was recently discovered.  According to her grandson she was 18, so perhaps taken in about 1893.  The photo I scanned was only about 3" high so I think the definition is quite impressive.  I have a larger image if that would be more helpful.  I would be so grateful if anything can be done to restore this photograph.

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