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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Old photographs

Prompted by an article in last week's Westmorland Gazette, we've been looking at some old photos. Considering the price of cameras and film, the Robinsons took an awful lot of photographs in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. We have boxes and boxes of posed studio portraits of unknown ancestors (we're working on identifying them) and Weddings etc. There's also proud snaps of cows and children. Most were obviously taken around Strickley, but one at least seems to be somewhere completely different. Do you recognise anyone on this photo, or have any idea where it was taken? It's not the usual family snapshot.


P.S. The photograph in the Gazette article is among our boxes of photos, and Arthur and Jean have been busy gathering information about it. The expert waller at the front is Henry's Uncle Len, with Uncle Wilson wielding a hammer on the same side of the wall. More details to follow.

1 comment:

Victoria said...

I know nothing about the photo. But that hat is AMAZING! I'm looking for inspiration for my friends wedding.