Ok I don't know the location but here are some thoughts to ponder.
The people are all well shod a sure sign that they are related not staff.
The gentleman on the right is head of the family, see how the topper makes him taller than the rest. His 'crombie' style coat and brolly indicate industry perhaps a mill owner rather than a land owner.
Behind every successful man stands a good woman and there is his wife behind him. She has distinctive eyes as does their son next to her.
His wife and daughter are next then another son and his wife or perhaps daughter and her husband.
The geographical setting is we are led to believe, W. Yorks. I think we are on a flood plain of either the Aire or the Wharfe, wide fertile farmland and the high hill in the background. There are few trees indicating lots of farming for a long time. The river would be behind the photographer. The walls are sandstone or millstone grit not limestone. so putting all this together I would guess at an area North of Bradford and South of Skipton or Ilkley.
The wall in the foreground is of the type found around mills and is not round the big house, that wall and its gate can be seen just by the elbow of the man on the left. The coping stones are distinctive. Perhaps there is a mill to the left of the picture. I don't think the family are standing on a major road. There is a lot of stonework in the picture, suggestive of a location not far from a town or city where a large workforce could be found.
The white roof of the building on the right, behind the gentleman with the top hat, is also distinctive. I don't ever recall seeing one quite like it.
Well that's about it, oh what areas are you researching Andy ?
