Date the photograph

[PrueM]

Thank you all for your comments.

But can anyone put a year to the photo rather than the person.

Mourne

Hi Mourne,
the photo is the same date as given earlier in the thread - WW1 vintage.  Silver gelatin DOP if you want to get technical    The oval shape and card decoration are also of that date.
Sorry but it really seems that this is not your grandmother.
Cheers
Prue

[Mourne]

Thank you all again,

This is my first time on this site so sorry if I have asked the same quiestion twice, I am sure I will get used to it in time. I will now have to put on my thinking cap again.

The name on the photo is Hellis and Sons.

Mourne

[PaulaToo]

Hellis and Sons, we've had one of theirs before...can't bloomin remember where...

Still sticking to it, if it is too late for grandma, is it great grandma?

[PaulaToo]

Here they are, half way down the page
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/LITTLE-CDV-PHOTO-ALBUM-DECORATED-WITH-MORE-40CDV_W0QQitemZ330186547887QQihZ014QQcategoryZ409QQcmdZViewItem

[Rabbit B]

Sorry Mourne, I think that might be wishful thinking 

The lady does not look like an ill young woman, she looks like a healthy mature woman.  If she had TB she would look more wasted and pale.  This lady has all the signs of a face going southwards (not wishing to be rude!    ) - slight jowls, heavy brows, lines around mouth etc.  Her hands are not the hands of a young woman, either.

Combine all this with the fairly confident dating information of 1915-1920 or so, and I really think that, unfortunately, this is not your grandmother 

Hi Prue,

I have to agree with you about the hands, I must confess that I was too tired to notice them last night,  the lines around the mouth were what I was referring to in my earlier post, I was very puzzled by the lack of grey hair.

Dark haired people, my mum and husband both dark haired seemed to go grey fairly early on.  Yet I have an auburn tinge and very little grey despite my advancing years!

Rabbit B 

[IgorStrav]

I think the thing about "the face going southwards" is that this lady doesn't have many teeth, which again would suggest she is older than the 32 you were hoping for with your first identification.

Have you worked out who she might be, aged c 50 or so in 1915-20, so born c1870, perhaps?

[PaulaToo]

Not all dark haired people go grey early, Rabbit, me ole chum,    Gran Harriet wasn't grey, neither were my Mum or Dad, all into their 80s.

[saddles]

Hi Mourne...........Heres my colour version and my suggestion is this lady must be at least in her mid to late fifties.

Carolyn 

[Mourne]

Thank you Caroline  for the colour photo it is great.  Hubby is most impressed.

 Hi IgorStrav there is no one born in 1870+ that it is likely to be,

 Also thank you Paulatoo for the info you gave on Hellis & Sons looked  on the site and seems they had a photo studio in Greenwich where on the 1901 Census my Grandmother was living so could well be it is her mother.

Many thanks to you all have a nice weekend

Mourne