anyone care to speculate

[Jean McGurn]

Not sure he is holding a cigarette as it looks a funny way to hold one. Initial thought is perhaps a pen or pencil but would it have been white?

Jean

[danuslave]

Hi Marcus

Any chance you could get a higher resolution scan?  It might help to pick up some of the details

Linda

[Ronin56]

Could the item under his arm be a concertina?

[bleckie]

Hi All

It could be a relative home on leave. He looks well suntanned could he have been serving in the North Africa campaign or somewhere hot and sunny. I would hazard a guess that this chap is at least ten years older than the female maybe more, could it be an uncle.

Yours Aye
BruceL

[Rena]

My first thought was he was wearing creamy white cricket trousers with cricket gloves under his arm but maybe it's a fashionably draped pocket handkerchief.   
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For non formal occasions men used to wear light grey slacks and either a 'sports' jacket or navy blue blazer.
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I can't make out what he's got in his hand but it must be something rigid for it to go over his middle finger like that (a cigarette holder or clay pipe?).
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He's got a lovely tan hasn't he but if he's the type with olive skin like my blue-eyed OH he could have been digging an allotment and he'd be nut brown in a good hot summer.
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[fenifur]

He's got a lovely tan hasn't he but if he's the type with olive skin like my blue-eyed OH he could have been digging an allotment and he'd be nut brown in a good hot summer.
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Lol! My Mum always says 'Brown as a nut' :p This reminds me of some of my (few in number) family photos.
I know everyone is ruling out same generation, but there is 28 years between my mum's eldest and youngest brothers.


It looks like he's holding a cig to me, could have moved it sluightly so it became blurred/elongated in the photo.

My granddad went to India in the war, and an Uncle went to Egypt, so is very possible it's a family member with a nice tan - might be worth looking up any known relatives war records if they're available.
I have a photo similar to this, with a man holding a little girl. It was in my Nan's box of family photos, but no one knows who he is!
Hope you work it out one day

[Wiggy]

True - I also have family where there is over 20 years between oldest and youngest sibling - bit further back in history than these people though!   

Wiggy   

[fenifur]

Hehe, I often wonder how my Nan did it! First in 1933, last in 61! I come from a long line of ginormous families though, obviously good 'breeding stock' :p