Genealogy Chat

I have a picture taken in 1939 ,at Jerome studios Woolwich London, of my gran aged 58 it is postcard format. Had to look at the back to see it was an original & its just like a post card you can buy from the seaside & write on & post. Shirley

Thank you all so much for your replies. I think that I will now do a bit more investigation!! I found a lovely big 'studio' photograph of my great grandmother which would have been taken around the 1880s. It is so nice to be able to actually see what people looked like.

I have a postcard photo of a baby born in 1870 ...... so I hope that they did do them as early as that ! I'm going to check now ....

Hi, I don't know about C. Durham but I lived in Lancashire and as a small girl (in the 1950's) I have lots of photo's of me and many other children parading the streets in our lovely white dresses on Whit Sunday - What we used to call the 'Whitweek' walks. These had been going on for many, many years by then. It was a very big thing there and all the churches and sundayschools etc. took part. Each one usually selected a 'Queen', which I was lucky to be on several occasions. Perhaps it could have been somethink like this, rather than a Confirmation Ceremony. Each group was usually following behind someone carrying a banner - A huge tapestry or embroidered flag, carried between two tall poles, depicting the name of the church or association etc. Worth a thought? Dea x

If it is of either my grandmother or her sister, then the date would have been around 1905.

I have photos of my mum and dad in the 40's still in that postcard format. Keep it, must be a rellie.

Thank you, Kathleen and Tracey. In that case, it may well be a picture of my grandmother's confirmation.

All my old photos are in Postcard format. Most of them date from the turn of the century.

Lots of photographs were printed as postcards in those days. We have several of our family in that format. I think since it has been kept in the family for so long, it probably was a family member's photograph. Kath. x

Whilst sorting through some old family photographs I have found a picture of a church in Crook, County Durham which looks as if it was taken in the first decade of the 20th century. It shows a procession of young girls dressed in white dresses, so I assume that it was a confirmation ceremony. The puzzling thing is that it was in the format of a postcard. Could this be a picture of a confirmation for a member of my family which was printed in this way, or do you think that it was just an ordinary postcard showing the church? My grandmother may have been confirmed at this church during that time.