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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: misgrace on Friday 15 July 11 16:44 BST (UK)
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This was in an old photo album all the photos dated around 1890 1910 I think. All my family came from London and Kent.This is not much to go on but would love to know if anyone recognises it if it is still standing
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Did your family spend any time on the Isle of Wight? Memory of similar shaped
house at the foot of Carisbrooke Castle? That was some 30 years ago, will sk friend who is still there to look at your photo.
Good luck Val
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Thanks Val
I have never found any of my family names on the census who have been in the Isle of W.
I wrote to the Dover museum years ago to see if it was in Kent anywhere,but they said it was unlikely.
Have done some searching on google to try and find the style of the house and try to date it, but have not come up with anything, so I was hoping the experts on this site might be able to help.
Maddy.
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That rounded end is very unusual Maddy,I wonder if it has a matching one at the other end.I would think we are looking at the back here.
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It would be the house of a wealthy family, with live in servants and maids who lived on the top floor.
They would have employed a gardener or several gardeners. Probably had one or more horses.
If it is still standing today, it may be a hotel or a nursing home.
Just a hunch, try along the south coast say Hampshire or Dorset.
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Are there any clues in the caption alongside it?
There is nothing written on the back of it is there?
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It might be somewhere they went for a holiday rather than where they lived.
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Is it a photo or a postcard ?
Were there colour photos in the time frame you suggest ??
(Would have loved to live there !)
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Is it a photo or a postcard ?
Were there colour photos in the time frame you suggest ??
(Would have loved to live there !)
Just think of the expense, though. All those servants and the electric bill would have been huge ( although they probably did not have electricity at first)
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Hi
It has an Italian/Spanish feel to it (but def not in the med!) with the 3 storeys and small windows at the top. They were also keen on the rounded ends.
Given the planting of the small palm/yucca type plants outside the glasshouse It is definately going to be southcoast as these would have been uncommon in the timeframe you mention and were generally grown in the more temperate climes of the UK.
It's an odd one as it has the sash windows which are out of place with the long 'ribbed' windows on the round end.
My guess is that the photo has been colourised.
It's quite unique, I'm sure someone will recognise it!
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I would say that style of house was quite a common build throughout Britain during a certain time period. Off the top of my head I can think of at least three very similar properties in the area I live.
Pels.
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Yes. I once lived in a country mansion just outside Rugby with a rounded end. Coton House, Churchover if you want to look it up.
The rounded end probably had "french" windows opening on to the garden.
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I'd hazard a guess at somewhere in Devon or Cornwall, which would explain the palm type shrubs .... probably in pots and put in the green-house for the winter !
It reminds me a little of the National Trust place 'Overbecks' (but its not)
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Try also looking around Bath and Somerset, possibly Frome.
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Hi All
Yes this photo has been coloured by restorers, I first put it on as" Mystery House" for restore and colour,thought it would be more identifiable with it a lot clearer, and the colour one is so good.
The origanal photos came from an old album, they are sepia colour, and the paper quite thin. Would that give anyone a clue as to what camera was used to take the pictures?
There are front and back photos on the other thread.
I was also zooming in on the plants, and thought that this was unlikely to be London.
I will check any ideas you all have.
Much appreciated
Maddy
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Here's the link to other thread-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,543806.msg3978026.html
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Thank you for putting the other thread on for me
Maddy.
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i wonder if it is an irish house jimbach
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Look on "English Heritage" Images of England you may find similar architecture which may give you clues.
I wonder if it could have been some sort of Institution, Asylum or Hospital
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Good Morning all.
I have spent most of the weekend on " google search" looking up all your suggestions, I found a couple with the rounded ends (not mine) I think my one looks like a 17th century build,what do you think?
I have also been looking more closely at the two photos, and I don't think the two houses are the same.
I am also wondering if the round bit in the coloured photo has been built on,because of the differant style windows.(just a thought) What do you think?
Thanks for all your input.
Maddy.
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Probably way off beam Maddy but those plam type plants can also grow on some parts of the west coast of Scotland.
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Probably way off beam Maddy but those plam type plants can also grow on some parts of the west coast of Scotland.
Yes. Poolewe or Inverewe. There is a National Trust for Scotland Garden up there.
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I have also been looking more closely at the two photos, and I don't think the two houses are the same.
I would say they are the same house - the rounded bit at the end with the creeper on the walls, and the line of 6 chimney pots.
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I don't think the presence of palms etc, outside should be taken as too much of a guide to location - they could well have been grown in huge pots in that big conservatory and only brought outside during the summer.
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Definitely the same house. There is a very distinctive upper row of small windows butting right up against a deeply overhanging roof.
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Looks Georgian up to 1830 to me. The section at the back in the colorized picture looks different, possibly an original house or addition. I see no electrical wires and many chimneys indication maybe a coal firelplace in each room. An upper class house probably within an estate. The round section looks just enough out of character to be possibly an addition.
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"Restoration Home" (BBC last night) featured 2 properties with rounded bits like yours, in Pembrokeshire, the one being restored was modelled on the one across the water in a serious case of "one-upmanship", apparently. The ruined one "Big House" only had 1 rounded wing left standing but the other (Picton Court, I think) had 2. I think they were 19th C but was not paying attention all the time (dozing I think ::) )
Obviously a feature of grand houses at a certain period.
Pat
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"Big House" and Picton Castle
Copyright photographs removed
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It reminds me of a large house on Carr House Road, Doncaster, unfortunately I forget the name, but it was used as a private maternity hospital, and latterly by Doncaster Social Services. I think that the palms would have spent October to April in the conservatory.