Photo dating please

[Rutland Belle]

This photo of the Jones Family was taken in Bethesda, Bangor, Wales. The photographer was Amilius Clarke & Son (we have another photo with this name on). The Clarkes were  photographers in Bethesda from  c1871 and the son was still there on the 1911 census.

Restoration would be nice but more important is a date if anyone can tell from the clothes please, Thank you

[Niksmum]

a clean

Irene

[chinakay]

Around 1900ish. Could we see the whole thing uncropped please, and also the back if there is any printing on it?

Cheers,
China

[Rutland Belle]

I can't believe how good that restoration is , you will have made a young girl very happy (she is 13 and very keen on genealogy) she found this photo in her gran's cupboard and sent it to me so this is all I have. I have another photo which I believe is one of the men in the family photo and I post that. I will ask her to look at the back of the photo

Regards Jennifer

[chinakay]

Please ask her not to crop the backing off. Everything's a dating clue.

Cheers,
China

[Rutland Belle]

this is the other photo that she sent to me. Ok China will do and thanks for the advice

[chinakay]

Need to see the back, if there's any design or printing....because a photo like this is very hard to date. men's clothing didn't change much, and there is very little of it to see.

Best to start a new thread for every photo...some restorers are still on dialup and don't revisit old threads.

Although your friend would probably have to look for the word "dialup" in a dictionary

Cheers,
China

[Niksmum]

one from me

Irene

[chinakay]

Oh nice, Irene!

Speaking of Irene......what are you doing here??