STANDING AROUND 2
If you look at the full print, there is just one clue as to where this photograph was taken - the word "Gipping" near the top of the terraced house. Gipping is a small village in Suffolk with a population of less than 100. I have taken a wander around the lanes and roads of the village - courtesy of Google Street View - and I can see nothing resembling our little brick terraced house.
Looking carefully at the family, I don't think they are agricultural labourers - which they probably would be if they lived in Gipping, Suffolk. This suggests that Gipping is the first part of a street designation - Gipping Lane, Gipping Terrace, or the like - and is nothing to do with the Suffolk village.
I live on Dorchester Road which is nowhere near Dorchester. Just around the corner is Cumberland Avenue which had never been within sausage-swinging distance of Cumberland. So it could be that Gipping Terrace has never been within a skipping rope of Gipping.
Interesting that my grandfather (best friend of Mike GC) was born in 1888 or 6 I forget, and he wore exactly the same clothes as the smaller boy. But his boots were noticeably smarter even in tiny b/w photos. Probably polished by Nanny. Or some other servant. Unfortunately as the youngest of 5 there was not a lot of money associated with his expensive boots by the time he grew up. Mummy used to say great granny spent all her money on linen sheets and hats!
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I don't live so close to there either. I like both of the photos and the brick is an interesting hand made kind of material.
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