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Old Photograph
This is the old photograph. Can anyone guess the year, the possible location & the event?
I look forward to your observations.
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I've uploaded it to my photobucket account - it is a bit bigger.
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The women are wearing what look like sprays of wild flowers in their hair and on their bodices, and some of the men are wearing buttonholes - I can't see any evidence to suggest a bride in the background.
With the floral sprays and the bowling balls, I'm guessing this is a local fair or church fete - perhaps a kind of 'Rose Queen' type - between 1900 and 1910 going on the dresses and especially the hats.
Some historic vandal has pencilled nipples onto one of the women - not much changes does it?
In the background on the right there seems to be a church hall, church or schoolroom dating to about 1870 architecturally, but over to the left is part of a bigger, possibly older church or monastic building with a high perimeter wall on which some lads are sitting.
York Minster has surrounding walls like this, but so do a lot of other places.
With the floral sprays and the bowling balls, I'm guessing this is a local fair or church fete - perhaps a kind of 'Rose Queen' type - between 1900 and 1910 going on the dresses and especially the hats.
Some historic vandal has pencilled nipples onto one of the women - not much changes does it?
In the background on the right there seems to be a church hall, church or schoolroom dating to about 1870 architecturally, but over to the left is part of a bigger, possibly older church or monastic building with a high perimeter wall on which some lads are sitting.
York Minster has surrounding walls like this, but so do a lot of other places.
Then it was worth a great deal of money, and if the women's clothes were of the same fashion as those shown here, you are dealing with time travel.
This photograph is most definitely post-1900.
Women's fashions 1820-30 consisted of enormous puff sleeves and 'bertha's' - a kind of large shawl-like collar often fastening across the bosom. Cartwheel hats, hair worn in ringlets. Shoes narrow, flat-heeled and and pointed.
Shoes of that time did not have a distinct left and right- these were worn in by the user - the man standing just right of centre has differentiated shoes.
This photograph is most definitely post-1900.
Women's fashions 1820-30 consisted of enormous puff sleeves and 'bertha's' - a kind of large shawl-like collar often fastening across the bosom. Cartwheel hats, hair worn in ringlets. Shoes narrow, flat-heeled and and pointed.
Shoes of that time did not have a distinct left and right- these were worn in by the user - the man standing just right of centre has differentiated shoes.
I'm amazed that you can all see the photograph! My daughter & I spent over an hour trying to upload it via http://
I'll keep you guessing for a few days and then tell you the location, the event and the year.
I'll keep you guessing for a few days and then tell you the location, the event and the year.
there is a massive series of arches in the background which look like possibly a railway viaduct, similar to in Accrington, the dresses are similar to the ones in a photo i have of my great grandmother aged 15, she was born 1872, it's a small Church or Chapel behind the garden but no gravestones and not one child in the whole picture, which suggests a club gathering rather than a church gathering, the ladies bowling team are in the front but to the right there is a working man holding a bowling ball, but he's the only man with one and one of only a handful of men with a flat cap. so about 1885-1895,
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