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Old Victorian Photographs

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 12:26

Following on from the Victorian dresses thread, which I found most interesting. Have you got any old photos to share? Victorian times to the 1950's? Would love to see them if you have.

This one is of my great great grandma, she was born in 1840, I'm not sure how old she was in this one, I'm guessing 40 ish?

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Stephisaur · 15/08/2018 14:09

I have a photo of my great grandparents with my grandfather as a baby. I'll dig it out later and share :)

ILoveMyDressingGown · 15/08/2018 14:41

No unfortunately but I wish I did. My dad showed me one that he had of his granddad and his mum as a child. She was born in 1919 though so the photo must've been taken in the mid 1920s so a bit later than the Victorian period. His grandad had a massive handlebar mustache and he looks like he should be called Edward but was in fact called Dave (not David, unusually, for the time he was alive). It wasn't a stiff, formal portrait either; it looked quite relaxed and informal. My great-granddad was crouching down and my nannan was on his knee.

ImAGoofyGoober · 15/08/2018 14:43

I’ve got a couple from the 50s upstairs somewhere. Will have a look in a bit.

Love old photos!

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 14:44

That'll be great Stephisaur

Here's one of my grandma.

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 14:52

The one of my grandma was from around 1910 I think.

Here's one of my dad from the 1930's:

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ILoveMyDressingGown · 15/08/2018 14:52

This is one taken probably in about 1958ish. My mum and her siblings outside their house. It always makes me laugh because they look like a right bunch of street urchins!

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 14:55

It wasn't a stiff, formal portrait either; it looked quite relaxed and informal. They're great those ones aren't they, usually they all look so serious. Smile

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cecinestpasunepipe · 15/08/2018 14:59

This dates back to 1913, and is of my grandmother and great grandmother on the occasion of my grandmother being presented at court.

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 15:00

That's great ILoveMyDressingGown The double pram too Smile

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Vitalogy · 15/08/2018 15:02

Beautiful dresses cecinestpasunepipe

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Geekynzmum · 15/08/2018 22:57

This is my great great Nan, great Nan and her kids.

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BitOfFun · 15/08/2018 23:04

This is my paternal grandmother and her sister larking about in the 1920s.

BitOfFun · 15/08/2018 23:06

And this dapper young couple are from the same era in my family photos, but nobody remembers exactly who they were Sad.

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RJnomore1 · 15/08/2018 23:10

Hello bof! Long time no see

I don't have any here but my mother has great Ines of my g grandma. My gran was born in 1910; there's one of her as a baby with g grandmas looking lovely (3 kids) then one a few years later where she's aged about 3 decades in 8 years (8 kids by then).

I think they say a lot about how hard ordinary women's lives were.

Neverplayleapfrogwithaunicorn · 15/08/2018 23:17

This is my Great Great Grandmother who was called Annie-Sofia

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Neverplayleapfrogwithaunicorn · 15/08/2018 23:19

One of these is my great great grandad
There were 7 killick brothers who each manned a station on the welsh Great western railway line
This was taken in the 1880s

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Grandadwasthatyou · 15/08/2018 23:25

My great grandma and grandad who came over to the uk from Co. Wexford in Ireland in the late 1800s. My Great Grandad got a job in the shipyards in the North of England.
My Grandma , who died before I was born, is at the back between her parents. It's uncanny how much she looks like me when I was her age.

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ILiveNearStamfordToo · 15/08/2018 23:37

Placemarking as I have a lovely photo of my grandmother from the 1930s which I must post once I find it!

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 15/08/2018 23:42

Here's one of my grandma.

A Gibson Girl, judging from the hairstyle.

The double pram too Smile

It does show, that nothing is really new.

I like old photographs/letters (post cards), especially, when a MNetter needs help. Smile

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Apollogies that I have no photos to add to the thread. Sad

florenceswashingmachine · 16/08/2018 00:01

My great great grandfather leading the horse in 1915... no idea who the child is. I love old photos - have scanned all my gran's for safe keeping.

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florenceswashingmachine · 16/08/2018 00:02

Also several unknown faces.. lassie with the lovely earrings is from 1934 though I know that .

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florenceswashingmachine · 16/08/2018 00:05

This lady none of us know - assume a relative of my great gran but how long ago and whom , absolutely clueless.

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florenceswashingmachine · 16/08/2018 00:07

Final one cropped up recently from back of a cupboard... I love the dress more than anything but no idea of names or time sadly!

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SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 16/08/2018 00:17

Flo All I do is roughly date the last photo to the 20s-very early 4os. Sorry about that.

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 16/08/2018 00:20

Can I urge you all to upload these to Ancestry? Even if you just take out the two week free trial. It's a great way to share them with other (distant) relatives so they can see what their ancestors looked like (and vice versa)

If that seems too much faff please at least write on the back of them who they are (first name and surname). I have a small stack of pictures of people I presume to be relatives but I haven't a clue who they are because there's no writing on the back (or, in some cases, a helpful relative has written "me in x location". Thankfully I already know who that person is!