Identify bottle / sign and offer a date?

[Essenchill]

OK, here's the best my scanner seems able to do, and I don't think these are going to help much, you might all surprise me!!  Here are 600dpi scans of bottle and sign in the window!  Also, can anyone confirm where the Seven Seas building was/is?  Am I right thinking it was/is St Andrews Dock?  Thanks!

[Essenchill]

For completeness, the photo is only roughly 2 inches by 4 inches...

The reverse shows it is photographic paper and has the logo "Agfa-Brovira" as Fuji or Kodak would appear across other photographic paper...  I can scan the reverse as well but there isn't much to see.

Finally, I will see if I can get this moved to the Photographic board for further analysis, however thank you all so much for looking so far...

In the meantime - another scan of that bottle...!

[Evie]

Hi

Can't make out the pics yet but thanks for posting them. Seven Seas is on Hedon Road Hull. Put Seven Seas near Hedon Road Hull into Google maps and choose the Marfleet Seven Seas East Bound. There is a building that looks similar but there are some boards from Yorkshire Water so once again we can't see the entrance.

I also had a look on old maps and in the 1950's if I remember correctly a map shows the building as British Cod Liver Oil Company. I haven't got the link in front of me at the moment but I think that was what it said.

evie

[Essenchill]

Yes, Seven Seas was originally called British Cod Liver Oil (BCLO) Producers before finding it's brand.  See this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Seas_(company)

[tedscout]

I'm no dating expert but it's almost like the 1970s with someone wearing just a sweater and jacket and also what looks like a novelty tie with a design on it rather than the normal stripes or spots.

I'm no expert either but as soon as I saw it, it reminded me of some promotional photos my dad was in in the 1970's.   

[tedscout]

This might help you date the photo

http://lwcollectibles.blogspot.com/2007/09/agfa-photopaper.html

[HeatherLynne]

If it is the 1970s then everyone has remarkably short hair    Only the younger staff in the front right hand corner have longer locks - but then the rest of the men are of an older generation.  

At least four of them are smoking, one with the fag still in his mouth! and the casual crouched pose of the front row doesn't seem formal enough for 1930s/40s.  However the lady's dress and hair seems to be from an earlier era and I did wonder if this was a promotional shot for the 50th or some other anniversary of the production of the 'sauce' or whatever it is.  Then maybe she's wearing a costume from when the product was first made?

There's a lot of guessing going on there ^^^    I'll be really interested to see what the folk on Photo Restoration and Dating think  

[ScouseBoy]

Could it be Heinz Tomato Ketchup?

It is rather inappropriate that there are two hands from the man behind her holding on to the ladies waist.
I bet he got a good slap once the photo had been taken.

[ScouseBoy]

Why only one woman in the photo?

Is one of the men right at the back in the doorway wearing a white laboratory coat?