Hi all
I wonder if you can help please to date this photo from the clothing and poses?
A relative found this photo behind another picture hanging in the Bakers Arms pub in Harkstead, Suffolk, England.
We guess that it is a family group connected with the Kirk family in Chesterfield, since the publican's first husband, who died when 24 of TB, was Samuel Kirk, who was admitted to Greenwich Union Infirmary in April 1914 and died there on 1st May 1914.
At marriage in Chesterfield, on 26 Dec 1911, the father is shown as Richard Kirk deceased; occupation: Fettler, and Samuel Kirk, 22, a hairdresser, therefore born abt 1890.
Samuel’s parents – Richard and Annie Kirk nee Salt. Married 1886 in Brampton, Chesterfield.
Father's Names: Alfred Kirk and James Salt
Suppose the photo could be of or include the Salt family but no idea really.
The uniform of the young man could help date the picture? Does the uniform indicate anything to anyone eg which regiment/role? I have found a census record in Jesmond St Andrew, Northumberland for Arthur Kirk in 1911, age 18, so born abt 1893, born in Derbyshire, single, a soldier in 3rd Battalian Northumberland Fusiliers. I wonder if this is him as one of Samuel's siblings was an Arthur and is of about the right age.
I've also attached another photo, which was found behind another picture in the pub, which we can identify as Rose Kirk and from her clothing would say it is a mourning photo and probably from around 1915? Rose remarried in 1920 and she and her husband ran the Bakers Arms from sometime during WW2.
Hope you can help.
Thanks in anticipation.
Val