A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?

[Milliepede]

I was thinking standing but it is hard to be certain.  The other person standing and if it was father and daughter he would naturally be taller especially if she was a teenager and still blooming. 

[action49]

Some excellent thoughts there. The locket is Jet (they lived close enough to Whitby and there was quite a bit of jet in my nanna’s house - it’s very shiny on the outside and stiff as can be to open up.  I can’t get the picture out unfortunately and there’s nothing on the other side space.

I naturally thought she was sitting - my thought was it was a wedding pic and that’s what I’ve seen before with husband’s proprietorial hand on shoulder.  The hair kinda threw me because Ive not often see it down in pictures but it looks like she had an unmanageable amount of it so it may have been her pride and joy.  My other thought was that this would have been in a coal mining Durham village where maybe the niceties of style in society didn’t apply but otoh it looks like she was well dolled up for the occasion, whatever it was.

[jim1]

I think you need to be careful here & not to try and hammer this in to someone you would like it to be.
What you've said contradicts what everyone is saying to you in that this is a girl around 15.
Women of all classes managed their hair into the fashionable style of the day without any problem.

[Creasegirl]

I think it late 1860s 1870s from the style of her hat and hair and not sure if she wearing choker or not.
Reminds me a bit of queen Alexandra's style

[jim1]

It does look like a choker now you mention it. These were popular in the 1870's & made a comeback during the Edwardian Era as you say.

[a-l]

I think 15 and no older. Maybe she died at that age and it is her last photo.
Do you have anyone who died around that age in that era ?
Who did the locket belong to ?

[Creasegirl]

I suppose we are assuming that the photo is of the age she died.  It might be that it was a special photo for the person to remember them by

[Ian Nelson]

I've tried to get greater definition ... is her hair down at her right side or is it a veil from the hat?

[Milliepede]

I assumed it was all hair and nothing but the hair.