Hi all, I have two photographs that have been passed down to me and I was wondering if anyone could suggest a possible year? On the back of one someone has written 'Oxford Road Rambling Club' - this would have been in Manchester.
They are stuck onto some thick card and from other photo's I have I believe my great 2x great grandma is on them.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Helen
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16-06-2019, 8:47 PM #1hbradshaw1985Guest
Large Group Photo for identification - year?
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16-06-2019, 11:00 PM #2
I'm no expert and stand to be corrected. My guesstimate is the mid to late 1890s.
Alma
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12-09-2019, 8:42 AM #3
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I agree that both photos were taken in the 1890s, but I would veer towards the beginning of the decade. In the 1880s ladies' hair styles were fairly severe, with hair parted in the middle and pulled into a bun at the back of the head. In the 1890s the front hair was beginning to be curled with tongs. In this photo there are a few of each style. Also, the leg-o-muttton sleeve ballooned out to a wide sleeve in the mid 1890s, and the sleeves here are not overly wide.
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15-09-2019, 11:34 AM #4
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One of the problems of identifying photos by style is that not everyone's circumstances are the same. This is a large, presumably family group with a mixture of clothing styles. If the photo was taken in Warrington then this is a posh lot whose females could have been up to date, but not necessarily the same styles current in London at that time or even in Melbourne! The men have a mishmash of different hats and suits. You may have more success with the date by identifying family members ages.
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15-09-2019, 12:52 PM #5
It's a different class, my GGfather was a forester in Scotland, but the men's clothing with the watch chains across dark waistcoats and the collars & ties reminds me strongly of a photo of the family taken just before GUncle George left for the Anglo-Boer war. They would have been in their best outfits, and styles took a while to travel north of the Border, but it suggests the early 1990s for yours...
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15-09-2019, 3:04 PM #6
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One of the least expensive methods of updating your style would be changing your hairstyle, which cost virtually nothing - so any woman can wear a new hairstyle. The main difference between Melbourne and London would be the three months to get here by ship, and the different season. If we are trying to narrow down a time frame, then "early 1890s" would cover it nicely without a stretch, I would have thought, notwithstanding the different hemisphere from where I comment. This looks like a reasonably comfortable group of people who could afford to bow to fashion. I merely concentrated on the most obvious pointers to a date.
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