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I used to be on Ancestry but I've not done any research for a few years since my parents died, no one else seems to be bothered about it,
Most of the names you've put on the photo's are correct, except the person named Caroline Maud is 'Doll' (I've not confirmed her real name yet), Caroline Maud Bright is the unnamed person to the right of John (Ally) Bright, and from memory the person to the right of Stanley is Thirza Bright, I believe she died of TB the same week as Maud, but I haven't as yet bought their death certificates, must get my backside in gear and get them to confirm things.

Thanks, yes that's the information I got, but having spoken to Les Woolsey before he died, he confirmed that the lady sat next to the bride was in fact his Mother, Caroline 'Maud' Woolsey (Nee Bright), she was the matron of Honour.

This photo is of Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Cardell at the marriage of Ally Bright to 'Edith' Woolsey as related to me by Lionel Mertz, yet she is called 'Grace' in other sources, so if anyone knows which is the correct name or if both are the same person it would be appreciated,

The photo was taken at the family farm at Gosberton Clough.

I've since discovered that Caroline Maud died of TB rather than leukaemia, and possibly Olive and Ivy, one of them the same week, but not sure whom until I dig into my notes.

From Top Left:
Betsey, Liz, Thomas, Stanley (My Grandfather), Thirza
From front Left:
Elizebeth (Cardell) Woolsey, Doll, Enid Rebecca, John William 'Ally' Bright, Caroline 'Maud' Bright, (My Grandmother), Edith.

If anyone can confirm the names are correct for those in the photo's, that too would be much appreciated, I spoke to Les over the phone before he died last year and the names are as he remembered them, but in different positions on the photo to when it was passed on to me, he'd seen the photo, but we didn't have them to hand when we spoke.

"My dad remembers going to the wake after his mothers funeral (Doris, daughter of Minnie Woolsey) and it being at a house where the garden backed on to a railway bridge. Could this be the same? any idea on the address?"

It sounds very likely, the cottage was at the side of the railway crossing just outside Spalding, situated at the base of the old footbridge,

I've just checked on Google maps and worked back from Hereward Road where my Grandfather (Stanley Woolsey) lived, it appears that the old footbridge and crossing gates along with the cottage have all gone, with just automatic barriers there now, the gates were manually operated back then and would have needed a gatekeeper,

I've copied the map location and address from the map image, if you copy/paste the grid location into google search it'll take you to the exact spot, you'll need to click on the image in the bottom left of the screen to take you to to satellite image,
Curiously, the overhead image shows what could have been the old cottage to the left of the crossing, but if you pan out to street level, it's all gone:

77 Winsover Road
Spalding
PE11 1EQ, UK
52.786504, -0.158999