Fabulous photos from 1857 rural Britain

[Katharine F]

Yes Greenvale they are the ones.

Viktoria, sorry if I didn't make clear what I was saying.
I know what the coats were, what I meant was that my husband and his colleagues who were all stockman with pedigree cattle, called their coats "smocks." Brown smocks and white smocks. This was in Gloucestershire.

[Viktoria]

Oh Katharine,I read  your post quickly and as I often do,jumped in ,when I ought  to have read it again.
I understand your point,the name sticking after so long.
I apologise to you.
Viktoria.

[Katharine F]

Oh bless you Viktoria, That's fine.
I thought you might have misread what I wrote.
I think we all read too quickly sometimes. I am always telling my grandchildren to make sure they read questions carefully in exams as I know I often didn't and I then made careless mistakes.

Katharine 

[melba_schmelba]

Hi friends 

Just had to share this wonderful photo collection http://mashable.com/2017/09/24/william-grundy-english-views/#k_Sgb9lGK6qf

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did.

Judy 

Wow, thankyou! Photos from the 1850s, and even the 1860s are so rare, it's so strange when you do see them as it's a world usually only depicted in engravings or in the caricatured world of Cruikshank or Phiz. I presume they had to be posed simply because any movement with the cameras of that day would result in blur.