Mystery group photo ... views welcome

[Paul E]

After your posts, every time I look at the photo now I see some new scenario!

I'm glad for the dating evidence, as this is starting to look like pre-WWI.

Is there a family relationship between the man in the jim-jams and the man sitting third from left, or am I just being fanciful?

Why on earth are the three whicker chairs occupied by men?

I can also see floral button-holes on about half a dozen of the men.

Ah well - perhaps we'll never know who these people are - would be fun to re-unite it with a descendent of someone on the picture, though.

Paul

[deadants]

How's this for a wild guess. http://tinyurl.com/4vowc


deadants

[Paul E]

What a great site deadants!

(I particularly like the fact that it indicates their 'sexual orientation' )

On the same theme, therefore,
2nd row, 8th from right? 
http://www.nndb.com/people/969/000024897/
Looks like he may only have had one tie, too!

Paul

[Bethan]

They could be a touring male voice choir,that was very common in the early 1900s,The people in the front could be the local dignitaries.             Bethan

[Jane Masri]

Why the teddy?  Anything to do with toy makers of the period?  A group photo of the boss & employees? Although it does have a kind od 'club' feel to it. Someone who is into collectable teddies might be able to identify it

Jane

[percy]

From the little boy's sailor suit and the ladies' dress and hats, I think the photo dates 1910/1912.

Percy

[alcrighton]

I may be toatlly off the mark but H G Wells was a founding member of the Fabian Society, the forerunner to the Labour Party and Ramsey McDonald was the first Labour Prime Minister.  Could that be Keir Hardy an the right (as you look at the photo) at the back (the one that looks like he's standing on a box)?  There were 29 Labour MPs elected in the 1906 election - maybe them and some of their supporters?

Allan

[Paul E]

Thanks Allan

The only image I can remember of Keir Hardie is of a white-haired chappie.

I would LIKE this to be a group photograph of something like the ILP, but it may be wishful thinking on my part!

cheers

Paul

[Paul E]

Unless anyone thinks the fellow in the front row (to the right of the teddy bear) is ...

http://www.cowlingweb.co.uk/local_hisoty_information/philip_snowden.html