Date please if possible

[tibbers]

Could anyone please date my Nan? On the back of the photograph is written "mum stokes" and indicated herself "mrs Harding" with a cross above her head. Any chance that the numbers on the back of it would tell me anything about the photograph?

[jim1]

The number just refers to the stock and image.Take a photo,give a chit with the number
on and claim it at the studio.
1940's I would say and is that a gas mask she's carrying?
jim

[tibbers]

oooo a gas mask?  haha and heres me thinking it was just a strange type of handbag!!.. have no idea tho if it is a gas mask and it would never of entered my head that it could be, is that what they used to carry them in? Forgive me, im totally useless.

[Gadget]

I saw the gas mask box and was about to post but then I got called away.

I hasten to add that I was born too late to wear one but  Mum and Dad kept them in the 'junk' cupboard for ages and I played with them. Hence I recognised the box 


Also note the predominance of women in the photo - even on the benches.

Gadget

[tibbers]

so this wouldve been during ww2, which narrows it down alot date wise. My mother was born in 1945 in Shropshire, and nan was married in 1943 i think. Nan's family all came from Cheshire, so they wouldve made the move to Shropshire roughly a year before my mothers birth. The picture definately isnt in Shropshire, and i dont recognise it as being in cheshire either so im guessing it was taken somewhere else and between 1942-43.