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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: anabanana on Sunday 27 February 11 21:30 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
I'd like to know your thoughts on the attached photograph - particularly re the date it may have been taken.
To the left of the house there stands a man and woman - possibly my great grandparents - trouble is, when I zoom in the image gets more and more distorted. I'm thinking they could be in their 30s?!
Any help much appreciated.
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First...could we see the whole thing uncropped please, and also the back if there is any printing on it?
Second...could we see a very high-resolution scan of the couple please? Drag a box around them on the scanner and scan just that area very high, maybe 2400 dpi or so. Then maybe there'd be something to see...
Otherwise, we're going to have a date range of about 1650 to 1950 ;D
Cheers,
China
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Unfortunately, I do not have the original photo...just this one electronic copy :(
This is all I've been able to do with it....
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Can't see a thing :(
If the lady is wearing either a white skirt, or more likely an apron...if the apron is the same length as the skirt, then I might hazard a guess at mid 1920s. But there really isn't enough to see, and the pixellation causes weird artefacts that may be misconstrued as clothing, causing confusion.
When did corrugated steel roofing come out?
Sorry, best I can do... :P
China
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When did corrugated steel roofing come out?
1829, see
http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/store/Corrugated-Iron-Buildings_9780747807834
A whole book on corrugated iron buildings how wonderful :D
Jan ;)
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Oh.
Well, I suppose the publisher thought there would be enough people fascinated by the subject to make printing it worthwhile.
Hope the author didn't have to give his advance back :P :D
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I dont think it is corrugated iron on the roof of the leanto, for one thing it runs the wrong way. I think it is timber, probably shiplap.
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Wouldn't corrugated run up and down?
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I think the front leanto has a timber roof but the building in the background (and most likely the building that the leanto leans against) looks like corrugated iron.
Jan ;)
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What's left of the threshing mill (the wheel is sort of visible to the side in the pic), has corrugated iron on it...but I agree the lean to looks like a wooden roof
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A whole book on corrugated iron buildings how wonderful :D
Sorry to go further off topic, but I drove past this one this morning http://tinyurl.com/67nqocz
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A lot of croft houses had corrugated iron roofs, noisy you would think. http://www.wreckoftheweek.co.uk/2011/02/croft-house-earlish-isle-of-skye.html
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How about a new one; http://www.hebrideancrofthouses.co.uk/
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Could I just add that I lived in a corrugated roofed croft house like that in Ross-shire on and off from 1984 to 1993.
Very few wooden roofs in the Highlands - too wet!
My guess is 1940s-1950s by the style of the 2 storey house.
JL
PS - very noisy when it rained which was often ::)
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Very hard to say what the date would be :-\
From the colour of the photo it has been printed out, rather than developed, so I'm guesstimating that it's pre-1930, and probably after 1910 if it's a postcard format (which it looks to be). BIG guesstimate, though.
Cheers
Prue
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Just remembered that there was quite a spate of building the 2 storey houses with the dormer windows in the Highlands around 1921- ish.
Would that fit ?
JL
PS - usually the bigger houses were the school house and manse before then
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Ana, I would say the house could date as early as the 1880s but has had sunshine windows fiitted later in the dormers. This is near the sea? the triangular rack by the door is for drying fish. The houses usually face south for the light, with the kitchen to the left with a stone floor and the living/bed room with a wooden floor, to the right. Skoosh.
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I think the wire running along the top of the wall is barbed - looking at the history (and there is a surprising amount) it was invented in America and was common there by the 1890's. I can't find when it came to Europe other than its use in WW1. I would guess it wouldn't have been used in the Highlands till after then?? :-[
Jan ;)
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You may like to look through these crofts
sylvia
google images search
highland croft house
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Ana, the history of the house is shown in the windows. A nineteen century building, it probably originally had three skylights upstairs facing south and one facing north. The two outside ones were for the bedrooms and the centre light for the upstairs landing, which generally had a wide shelf for a blanket kist. The north light lit a wee bedroom or press. The downstairs windows have the original glazing bars and are as old as the house. Sometime in the early twentieth century dormers were fitted to replace the skylights, these have modern "sunshine windows", if the house had dormers originally they would also have had small panes. If there was money for improvements it would have been spent on reglazing the downstairs windows where the light was needed. Skoosh.
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Hello all - thanks to all for the input so far, it is appreciated.
This house was built around 1900. It was occupied by a couple/family until 1917ish....and then my family moved in! My granny was born there in 1918.
I do not know who the people in the photo are - if the photo is pre 1917 then the two people are not kin. If however, it is post 1917 then.... :)