Mystery group photo ... views welcome

[JillJ]

Steady on Yoz!   Wishful thinking ain't going to get you nowhere!

Jill

[ryan]

Yoz & Jill

Anyways, I think that's just a plain old child's teddy bear on that Lady's lap.
Also, I agree with Yoz. I think a men's club would be your best bet Paul. Perhaps they are all academics?

Ryan.

[deadants]

Wow if that's a koala in Paul's picture, it must be a mutant.


deadants

[JillJ]

Could be a gathering to celebrate a taxidermist's work on the club mascot!

If its a 'men only' club I'm pretty certain it isn't a masonic lodge and I don't get a feeling of acadamia either.   What about something like Round Table - I think they wear lapel badges but don't know how long they've been in existence?  Somebody will know!

Jill

[Yoz]

Paul,
If you can remeber where you bought it from it might be worth looking into the area for a club of some sort.

I am intrigued to why the man in the chair looks as though he's got jimmies on but I would imagine they are more day clothes than anything else, bit odd though.

[Arranroots]

The badges seem to be the only uniform factor in their dress: ties, waistcoats - or not- and jackets all vary.

They are all past the first flush of youth.

There seems to be a bit of a nose thing going on with the family at the front!  All very similar apart from the lady with the koala.

I get the impression they are the hosts and I agree with Jill, the hedge looks British!!

[Paul E]

I'm blowed if I can remember where I bought it!

If it was a photo of a group of men then I, too, would go with the idea of some sporting club or something similar.  Its the family (if it IS a family) at the front that adds a mystery to the whole thing.  Unless they're all gardeners or something like that!

What about the period?  There's nothing on the back to indicate the age, but I was guessing maybe 1920's.

 

Paul

[DeComyn]

The style of the ladies dresses suggests it's around 1910-15ish. Also the hems are a little too long for 1920 (although the women weren't neccessarily slavishly following fashions  I'd expect to see their ankles !!!)

But as to who they all are  I think the family are the hosts, but what that makes the men I've no idea 

[Yoz]

Barbershop choir?

Rotary club?

Laurel hedge benevolent fund organisation?

out of ideas Paul sorry!!!!

where were you 10 years ago?