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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Thursday 14 March 19 19:44 GMT (UK)  »
Wonderful, Trish! I am in awe of your research skills. Do tell us how you found this. It must be the same place. The "Poltalloch House General view of west re-entrant and conservatory" image really cinches it for me. 

Now to figure out the connection with the photographs inside the album. Thank you so much for solving this mystery!

Carol
Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Thursday 26 April 18 17:35 BST (UK)  »
The photographs are not arranged in any chronological order, nor do they appear to be grouped according to families or location. It could be that they were mixed up over the years. I don't think that this album belonged to Lord Cecil, or his immediate family necessarily. It could have easily been someone who was connected, even very distantly. There are a couple of obviously "royal" images in the bunch, one of "Royal Group at Dumlanrig Castle, October 1869" that included Prince & Princess Christian, E. Schulz, Sackville Stopford, Esq., Lady Marsham, Edward Balfour, Earl of Dalkeith, Mrs. George Grant Gordon, Miss Thynne..., Duke of Buccleuch, etc.  Another is a cdv image of Queen Alexandra (then Princess of Wales), taken by Mayall in Nov 1862. I found a copy of this one at the National Portrait Gallery. Mine differs slightly from the one at NPG, mine does not have the imprint H.R.H Princess of Wales on it, and the photographer's location is given as "London & Brighton" not "244 Regent Street."

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw130425/Queen-Alexandra?LinkID=mp00072&search=sas&sText=Queen+Alexandra&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=37

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Thursday 26 April 18 16:56 BST (UK)  »
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Thursday 26 April 18 16:43 BST (UK)  »
I've scanned the image as high as my feeble scanner will allow. There are definitely hills around this property.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Thursday 26 April 18 03:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

I do apologize for not noticing all the replies to my post about this manor house. So many great ideas here. I appreciate all of the hunting and research that had gone into your thoughtful replies. Regarding the photo itself, I can't say if there is anything written on the back of the manor house image. It's actually pasted (very well) into the photo album. I don't believe I could remove it without damaging the photograph. The paper used for this image is not as heavy as cabinet card or cdv card stock. Most of the cartes in the photo album were taken in the 1870s and 1880s, with a few from the 1860s.

Dobfarm: the cdvs are the type of photo that were produced on cardboard stock and the size of calling cards, roughly  2 1/8" X 3 1/2". They began to be produced in the late 1850s and were most popular in the 1860s and 1870s. The first cdvs were on a thinner card with one or two thin lines as a border, and by the 1880s the cardstock had become heavier and the borders much more ornate.

I have to agree that the manor seems to be in a state of upgrade...it's very bare around the house, and I wonder if renovation work on the house and grounds is the cause. I also think this photo was taken of the back of the house, perhaps to show off the garden.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Can you help ID this manor house, possibly in Northumberland?
« on: Monday 08 January 18 20:57 GMT (UK)  »
I was given an old carte de visite photo album containing about 60 images.  I'm curious about the previous owners, and posted a story about it on my Family Photo Reunion blog.  I'm particularly interested in learning which manor house is featured in a photo inside the album.  Can you help? 

You can read more about the picture and the other images in the album at:

http://familyphotoreunion.blogspot.com/2013/06/mystery-manor-house-carte-de-visite.html

Thanks,
Carol

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Can you help identify this manor house in Chillingham Park CDV album
« on: Monday 08 January 18 02:52 GMT (UK)  »
I'm bumping this thread, in the hope that someone might be able to help me identify this manor. I still haven't had any luck.

Thanks!
Carol

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Can you help identify this manor house?
« on: Friday 18 October 13 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Judy,
Thanks for revitalizing this post. I still haven't had any luck discovering which manor house this is.  I volunteer at a Family History Centre and last month had a woman from Northumberland come in.  She said that the place looked familiar to her, but she couldn't remember from where.  She thought perhaps only a part of the building remains standing.  I think you are probably right about the photograph being taken from the back of the manor.  There's a possibility as well, that the place no longer exists.  I still have a lot of research to do on the photographs inside.  Perhaps something there will yield a clue.

~Carol

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Can you help identify this manor house?
« on: Sunday 09 June 13 19:13 BST (UK)  »
I recently was given an old carte de visite photo album containing about 60 images.  I'm curious about the previous owners, and posted a story about it on my Family Photo Reunion blog.  I'm particularly interested in learning which manor house is featured in a photo inside the album.  Can you help?  Please drop by and have a look if you can:

http://familyphotoreunion.blogspot.com/2013/06/mystery-manor-house-carte-de-visite.html

Thanks,
Carol

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