Assist to date photos plse.

[PrueM]

It looks more like the motorcade of some famous person or dignitary.  Especially the way people are craning to see into the car - the people on the back of that tram are in danger of falling out!

[ianofsussex]

The hat thing had bothered me too.  As a retired copper, I can remember many a time, standing by the kerb and saluting a passing hearse. Sadly, it's something you no longer see.

Thank you all for your time in looking at this, I shall dig out 'the brown suitcase' later and rescan the photos.

[ianofsussex]

Oookay, I've gone through the 'brown case' and rescanned the imagesat a higher res. You may notice something I initially missed (how, I don't know) - the wording on the back indicating that these are parts of postcards.

I notice too that in the crowd picture, there are at least two people who appear to be saluting  or cap doffing. I am also of the opinion that that the rearmost vehicle does appear to be a hearse of some sort.

If needs be, I have scanned the fronts of these cards in even higher res and have hosted off site and can be downloaded here:

http://www.themawfamily.co.uk/pictures/high_res/scan1_hres.jpg

http://www.themawfamily.co.uk/pictures/high_res/scan2_hres.jpg

[ianofsussex]

...and the backs.

Just to add that neither photo was in a frame and no other supporting information. The only thing I can say is that if these came from my fathers side of the family, these would have been from the Poplar, West Ham, North London area.

[ianofsussex]

Thanks all for your help.

Ian

[robbo43]

I would take a wild guess at 1920s rather than before the First World War, just something about the scene.  Are the two vehicles connected? People are standing in front of the, presumably stationary, hearse-like one to get a look at the front one drive by and the "hearse" is facing in the opposite direction to the front car.  I would guess the front one is a visit by an "important" person, probably not Royalty as the police would salute them as well.  Might the cap touchers be ex-servicemen saluting someone senior military?  I don't think the crowd would behave like that, hanging out of tram windows etc, for a funeral.

Robert

[ianofsussex]

Thanks for taking a look. I'm trying to get a bit more info from family on this. Attempting to find out if a family took it and then had it made into a card or not. The quality certainly doesn't look professional and looks more like an amateur, opportunist type shot.

Ian