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Title: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: tink13 on Saturday 29 January 11 09:55 GMT (UK)
Hello

I have no idea who these people are but if anyone could give me a rough date that may help. I do have family who were from kent (sheppy) could this be hop farming??

Many thanks

Chris
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: RecycledHippy on Saturday 29 January 11 10:20 GMT (UK)
Sorry - cant help with dates

Hippy :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: rsinbad on Saturday 29 January 11 10:25 GMT (UK)
quick clean
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: ogohogoh on Sunday 30 January 11 16:21 GMT (UK)
Hop picking was a popular seasonal family activity in Kent, so it could well be a hop farm.  The woman on the right appears to be wearing a sack, so maybe that's a clue...also, in the backgound to the right, there appears to be a crop cage on wheels.  Fred
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: Tony Freeman on Monday 31 January 11 00:26 GMT (UK)
Beautiful photo .. great characters  :)
I have no idea regarding its age .. will leave that to the experts.
A grey version to start with  :)
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: Tony Freeman on Monday 31 January 11 00:27 GMT (UK)
a sepia version
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: Tony Freeman on Monday 31 January 11 00:28 GMT (UK)
.... and finally a coloured version.
I really enjoyed colouring this one .... hope you find out who they all are  :)
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: cazza59 on Monday 31 January 11 05:26 GMT (UK)
Hi Chris

A tidy from me.

Caroline
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: chinakay on Monday 31 January 11 05:40 GMT (UK)
Not much that's dateable, but the girls are wearing huge bows in their hair which became fashionable in about 1915, and continued until sometime in the 1920s, so I'd say maybe early 1920s? Wonderful photo, don't you just love that smile? :)

My opinion, and you may get others :)

Cheers,
China
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: mozza29 on Monday 31 January 11 07:16 GMT (UK)
Softened a little,
Building in background may well be the ground floor of a hop drying oast and the family groups show a hint of being carefree, lovable itinerate folk.
Perhaps the card in the lady's top records a tally of how many bags of hops the family picked before lunch.
(Beaut color work there Mr Freeman).
Mozza29
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: Tony Freeman on Monday 31 January 11 10:18 GMT (UK)
Thank you Mozza29 ...... it makes it far easy when such a beautiful photograph  :)
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: tabsearch on Monday 31 January 11 18:02 GMT (UK)
Hi Chris

One more for you - Great photo!

David

Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: duckboy on Tuesday 01 February 11 09:56 GMT (UK)
Anybody have any idea what they are eating. The bowl on the floor seems to have a head in it, you can see an eye, an ear and a nose, but surly it can't be.
Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: cazza59 on Tuesday 01 February 11 12:28 GMT (UK)
I thought it was a chicken and some sort of roast beside it  :-\ but could it be a pigs head???  :o


Title: Re: Help and restore needed!!
Post by: tink13 on Thursday 03 February 11 11:52 GMT (UK)
Hi ,

Thank you all so much for your wonderful restore/tidy ups, they are so lovely,

I'm still no closer to finding out who they are but I'm sure they must be related some how....i suppose thats half the fun of researching your family tree ;)

Thanks again,

Chris