Old Photograph

[DSJ]

This is the old photograph. Can anyone guess the year, the possible location & the event?

I look forward to your observations.

http://www3.snapfish.co.uk/snapfishuk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=18270848010/a=12637259010_12637259010/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfishuk/

[Zacs-Master]

Comes out very small DSJ. Could you post it any larger? Looks like a late Victorian or Edwardian wedding to me.

[DSJ]

Sorry, you still won't be able to see the photograph. I give up!

[Zacs-Master]

I can see it, It's just small. Try posting it on tinypic. You dont need to register or any such nonsense.

[follyfancier]

1910-1911?

[follyfancier]

Zacs- Master I opened it in my browser and then zoomed to 400% to see it better

[wolf63]

I've uploaded it to my photobucket account - it is a bit bigger.

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s136/wolf63/Jill_zps1414f215.jpg

[Mosaic]

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.

[Vintage_Rose]

i guess maybe 1820s-1830s

[Mosaic]

Rose - can't be. No photos of this speed then; outfits not of time.

[Vintage_Rose]

a photo ive recently just seen look quite similar and that was around that era

[Mosaic]

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.

[Prudie]

Not 1820 at all, nothing like the fashion of the time or the men's moustache style. I'd say around 1910

[Vintage_Rose]

oh well they must have the date wrong on the picture i saw as well then ha

[DSJ]

I'm amazed that you can all see the photograph! My daughter & I spent over an hour trying to upload it via http://tinypic.com/ and Snapfish but couldn't see the photo when we thought that we had been successful. We two still can't see it!

I'll keep you guessing for a few days and then tell you the location, the event and the year.

[DJHawkes]

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,

[SimonBolivar]

I think the arches are windows of a church, not a viaduct.

[saxy_jag]

Certainly bowls. Outfits look to be Edwardian, so I would say c.1901-1914.

[DJHawkes]

this is the picture of my great grandmother taken in 1887, the sunday best costumes of the sunday school girls are very similar as are the hats
[IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/x2jkti.jpg[/IMG]

[erin-x]

The boaters make me think early 1900s as well..