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PHOTO CORNER

Costume historian & photo-dating expert Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures and so put names to the faces of the past.

YOUR FAMILY PHOTOS

James Rigby writes:

I am hoping that you might be able to help with this photograph, which came from my late parents’ house: three females in a ‘boat’. This is a postcard type photo, of possibly three generations. It looks like it may have been done at the seaside, possibly Blackpool. I believe these types of photo were called ‘photo stand in’. You can see the end of the stand in

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