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🐣Easter Sunday🐣 Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from my new collection bought February💒🌸👒🩷 What a beautiful group photo, taken 1920s in #Norwich #Norfolk 😍🌸💒The outfits & flowers look perfect & some nice #Hats 👒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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🐣Easter Saturday🐣 Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from my new collection bought February💒🌸👒🩷 Super group photo today & it’s all about the #Hats 👒😍🌸💒 Great assortment!👒🎩 I like the flowers👒& one is a beehive! #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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🐣Wishing you all a very Happy Easter Weekend🐣 Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from my new collection bought February💒🌸👒🩷 Two super sunny happy pics from same day, taken 1920s, lovely outfits & gorgeous flowers😍🌸💒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from a small collection I bought back in February over the next couple weeks💒🌸👒🩷 A bit more modern than I usually share but they’re such a happy couple, taken in the 1960s😍🌸💒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from a small collection I bought back in February over the next couple weeks💒🌸👒🩷 What a lovely happy couple, he in his #RAF #Military uniform & isn’t her dress so beautiful😍🌸💒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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It’s 113 years today since the Titanic disaster. Read my blog about some #OldPhotos that I found & wrote about in 2017. The family Bealing & Sons supplied the flowers for the #Titanic #FamilyHistory lynnswaffles.com/2017/10/22/t...

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Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from a small collection I bought back in February over the next couple weeks💒🌸👒🩷 A lovely bride with her new husband just coming out of the church, a few people out to greet them💒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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Sharing beautiful #Wedding pics from a small collection I bought back in February over the next couple weeks💒🌸👒🩷 A lovely bride with her bridesmaids & new husband in his #Military uniform outside in the front garden. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Does anyone recognise them?🤔🌸

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What a totally gorgeous dress!🩷 Perfect for Sunday best. The lace top & design with the floral edges at the back of the dress are stunning🌸 I can’t quite read the photographers name, it’s Edwin G?ad?🤔 I’ll have another try later. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #FashionHistory

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This lady has a beautiful hat👒 Pic taken by Chapman photographers at #Emsworth #Hampshire #Edwardian Wonder who she was?👒 Does anyone recognise her?👒 Is she one of your ancestors?👒

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Four more people, all photos taken at the studios of Joseph Buckley #Heywood #Lancashire Do you have any ancestors from Heywood? #FamilyHistory Do you recognise anyone🤔 #OldPhotos Great info on Joseph here: freepages.rootsweb.com/~victorianph...

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No hats today! 🎀I wonder who this young lady was, photo taken at the studios of Joseph Buckley #Heywood #Lancashire 🎀 Do you have any ancestors from Heywood? #FamilyHistory Do you recognise her🤔 #OldPhotos 🎀 More great info on Joseph here: freepages.rootsweb.com/~victorianph...

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👒Another super midweek #Hat 👒for this week. This lady is also beautifully dressed, I wonder is she related to last week’s midweek lady?🤔Same photographer, same design photo card, at same time? #OldPhotos #FashionHistory 👒 Photographer from #Salisbury #Wiltshire #FamilyHistory 👒

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🎭New Blog🎭Following a theme of the theatre & music this month with a very popular Comedian/Pantomime Dame Bruce Green🎭#TheatreHistory #BruceGreen #OldPostcards #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #GreenFamily lynnswaffles.com/2025/04/08/%...

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A nice photo of this couple & just look at that splendid lace!😍 Cabinet card photo taken by Charles John Witcomb & son Sidney George Witcomb, known as Witcomb & Son, photographers in #Salisbury & #Bournemouth, studios 1870s to early 20th century. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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👒Another lady wearing a #Hat 👒 Shame we don’t know who she is & what colour outfit she’s wearing?🩵 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Beautifully decorated cabinet card photo by photographers Williams & Williams, c1900 more on photographers from #Wales here: www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Occu...

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👒👒Two ladies in their Sunday best outfits & super #Hats photo taken by The Star Photographic Co at this studio 536 Oxford Street #London from 1893 to c1908. “Artistic Photography at night taken with the new Electric Light”👒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory 👒

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👒Two cabinet card photos taken by Karl Blumenthal at his studio #Wildbad #Germany 👒 Good to have 2 of the same lady, were the couple just married? She’s wearing a lovely stylish suit & is showing her ring to camera? They both look so serious😊👒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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This chap is looking all smart & dandy, a wedding guest or maybe he’s the groom?🤔💒 Taken at the studio of Photographers C Turner, 83 Castle Street #Salisbury #Wiltshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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👒This young lady holding a posy also has a rather nice hat placed on the table👒 She had her photo taken at Thomas Fall’s studios at 9-10 Baker St, Portman Square #London Between 1879-1887 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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On Monday, I shared this super cabinet card photo from my collection on social media. It had no name. But follower Anne @BrandyandLovage (Twitter) recognised her! What do you think? Is this the same lady? #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #TheatreHistory lynnswaffles.com/2025/04/02/%...

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A sensational midweek #Hat 👒 This lady is so beautifully dressed, would love to have seen her full length. #OldPhotos #FashionHistory Photographer from #Salisbury #Wiltshire #FamilyHistory

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Broken in half but still a fabulous image on this cabinet card. The lady is wearing a wonderful #Hat & outfit & look at that jewellery & super to have a parasol☂️ Taken at a photographer’s studio in #Scarborough #Yorkshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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A little faded & some foxing but still a lovely image😊 Taken by a Photographer at the Wilton Studio, North Street #Wilton #Wiltshire Wilton is 3 miles from Salisbury. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Did you know that Mothering Sunday, now #MothersDay in the UK, originated in the 16th century as a tradition of visiting the "mother church" on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Evolving into a day for Mothers/Maternal figures. Here’s some from my collection😊 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Thanks so much to @joannebegiato I have put these two images together so I could compare much closer & she’s 100% correct 👍 it is the same man! Thank you Joanne! The studio: James Tilley, Art Photographer, The Studio, Ashley Road, #UpperParkstone #Poole #Dorset #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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3 young men 2 same again, 1st is different, maybe the Groom? 2nd wearing chrysanthemum wedding buttonhole?🌼 Maybe yesterday’s 2 others Grooms brothers? The studio: James Tilley, Art Photographer, The Studio, Ashley Road, #UpperParkstone #Poole #Dorset #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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These two young men look very self assured but what are those chrysanthemum like badges/buttonholes they’re wearing?🌼 Photo was taken at the studio of James Tilley, Art Photographer, The Studio, Ashley Road, #UpperParkstone #Poole #Dorset #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Two beautiful looking children, what a wonderful photo of them. Taken by Ward’s Studios at 43 London Street in my home town of #Reading #Berkshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Today’s young lady is wearing a lovely dress but for some reason she seems to have been squeezed in between a table & chair to have her photo taken in #Bournemouth 🤷‍♀️ Photographer was Edward George Down (1843-1895) #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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What a super cabinet card. Another young man dressed in his best. He looks a very confident youngster doesn’t he. Photo taken by Gilbert Oliver Lock about 1905-1910 #Bristol #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Two very beautifully dressed children, can’t imagine that splendid collar staying white for long on a little lad like that!😄 Photo taken #Andover #Hampshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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💒New Blog💒 Last weekend I shared this portrait photo of Mrs Wilkes on my social media sites as a puzzle photo to see if anyone was able to find out who she was. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #WaltonOnThames #Surrey lynnswaffles.com/2025/03/23/%...

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🎼Fred in this photo at the front, is marked, as a young lad. Says: Choir outing from St Modwens, Burton. Parish Church. #BurtonOnTrent 🎼 One from my Blog about the Stokes & Styles Family. #StModwens #Genealogy #Staffordshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory lynnswaffles.com/2024/12/26/%...

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👒👒An absolutely splendid selection of #Hats today in this wonderful #Wedding 👒👒 Just one of many fabulous #OldPostcards that I bought last March from #FestivalOfCards #NorthPetherton a super #PostcardFair coming soon! Faded but a beauty! #FamilyHistory

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🧩Thought I’d share another puzzle 🧩 with you all today as you’re doing so well this week😊 🧩This #OldPostcards #OldPhotos was taken in South #Lowestoft #Suffolk 🧩“Peggy 3 1/2 months, Evelyn 4 years, August 1910” Is it possible to identify them?🧩 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Midweek Puzzle 🧩 Two puzzles on the back of this #OldPostcards #OldPhotos What is the lady’s name?🧩 What’s the name of the place where the photographer is?🧩 Every time I look I see something different🤔 Help! #FamilyHistory

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✉️Super news to share with you all! This wonderful #OldPostcard that I wrote about on a blog in 2020 is now right back where it started in #Sydney #Australia Posted last Monday & arrived yesterday!✉️ #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory Read Blog with update here: lynnswaffles.com/2020/08/29/j...

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Two very fashionable sisters I think 🤔 Had their photo taken in #Venice ?#Italy Were they visiting or are they Italian I wonder. Love the lace collars😍 I can see it says Photograph as one word but what does the rest say? Help please🤔 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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Starting the week with a Donkey 🫏 Seaside photo of this youngster taken at the pleasure beach in #Blackpool #Lancashire in 1928. 🫏The Donkey looks fed up😕 Wonder how many times he had his photo taken in a day. #OldPhotos #OldPostcards #FamilyHistory

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📚New Blog about a Father & Daughter who were obviously very close due to the sadness they shared. #Hampstead #London #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory lynnswaffles.com/2025/03/17/%...

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Starting the week off with this lovely lady. Someone has chopped the bottom off of her card frame & so I have no idea where she had the photo taken? But we have a name? & 1900 written on the back. What language? & can anyone decipher it for me please? #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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🧩A Sunday puzzle pic🧩 Quite a stern looking lady! Says on back: ‘Mrs Wilkes. Sunday School Superintendent. Rev J Mc Cowan Time’ 🧩Also printed, the PH was in #WaltonOnThames #Surrey 🧩I’ve not researched at all. What can you find out about her? #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

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🧡Another of those unusual CDVs coloured dark orange. But this one has a decorated back with more info. Bought #Hellesveor #PostcardFair with CDV shown Thursday. Lady with child, maybe related🤔🧡Info on Photographer in pic 3. #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #Falmouth #Cornwall

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