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Title: Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel, 1907 - ALC01453
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Title
Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel, 1907 - ALC01453
Description
From Mrs Carol Mosley (nee Astin). Some detail as to the people shown in the photographs might be useful. The four people seated in the 'landau' are my great grandparents on my father's side. On the left are John Astin (then a fustian manufacturer in Hebden Bridge) and his wife Emma and on the right are Benjamin Sykes (then landlord of the White Lion) and his wife Hephzibah. I am unable to put a name to the young girl standing between the two couples. The people in and standing near the larger vehicle on the other photograph seem again to be from the two families (Astin and Sykes) and I wonder if either or both photographs are linked somehow to the wedding of my grandfather and grandmother (Wilbert Astin and Sarah Sykes), which took place 31st July 1907. If this is the case these photographs were really 'hot off the press' as they are both postmarked with the date 2nd August 1907. Whilst the men are wearing buttonholes their outfits are not the same as they are seen wearing in the wedding photographs, which I have. Perhaps it was an engagement celebration of some sort.
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1900s
Rights
PHDA - Alice Longstaff Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
ALC01453.tif
Collection
Citation
“Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel, 1907 - ALC01453,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/14110.
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