Identify bottle / sign and offer a date?

[ScouseBoy]

And no young people in the photo, How old do you think the youngest man in the photo is?

I would say the youngest is about age 30.

[Treetotal]

I think it's a 50s photo and canteen related...the guy at the back could be wearing a caterers white coat.
Carol

[Essenchill]

To help with the dating issue, the cheeky chap crouching behind the guy on the first row is my grandfather who died in 1959.  I have other photographs which show him looking older than he does here, and so that is why I guessed the (late) 1930's or 1940's...  I think I should move this from the Hull board as other than a bit of a guess we haven't firmly being able to establish location!

[ScouseBoy]

Is it a bottle of Mackeson beer

[Treetotal]

What did he do for a living Neil.
Carol

[Essenchill]

Hi Carol, still trying to find information on what he did for a living - he died when my father was 7 years old and so we don't have much information yet.

[Essenchill]

This might help you date the photo

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

Thanks tedscout!
From this article the logo on the back is the last but one, 'Agfa-Brovira postwar':

[Treetotal]

Neil...I think the answer lies in a better scan of the bottle and the window sign..if this link doesn't help...try googling your scanner model and ask how for instructions on how to change the dpi:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,372537.0.html

Carol

[Nick29]

What about the man with the big tie, third from the right, front row ?

Is that a sort of horseracing motif on it ?

The way they're dressed looks like some sort of works outing ?   Maybe a day at the races ?

The building looks 1930's, but I'd say the photo is more 1970's.

Incidentally, Agfa Brovira paper was produced from the 1930's, but there was a lot of post-war surplus stock around in the 1950's and 60's.  The paper is still made today, but it's now called Agfa Brovira Speed.