Could you please resend your email address to me? I saw the email come in and now I cannot find it. Thanks.

Colleen

My elderly British friend’s opinion was “telegraph boy”. She disagrees with the assumption of the adverts would be gone in August. Her opinion is “not necessarily”.

Will send my email address for hi res photo.
Nancy

I have a high resolution image I can send you if you give me your email address. Send it to CFitzp at aol dot com.

Colleen

I think the boy is too young to be a postman. How old did you have to be? That kind of cap might havve been the style back then. Could he have gone to a school that did not require him to have a uniform? Today a typical private school will require a uniform but a public school will not, at least not in the States.

Colleen

Have emailed postalhertiage.org, asking their opinion about our guy.

So, who walks the streets in a uniform carrying a sack?
A postman ? A 1910-12 painting of a postman shows a similar flat top cap with short bill, and a soft sack hanging from the shoulder.

Today the search is for photos of 1890 era English postmen. And show the bridge photo to English born friends.

May 10, 1892 was a Tuesday. So maybe the 2 degress does make a difference. I think wall where the shadow of the boy’s head appears in vertical, as is the place where the man’s shadow appears. However, I think the latter curves outward into the exit, symmetrically with the wall on the left with the poster.

Do the pictures of Nottingham students you found correspond to the clothing of the boy in the picture?

Colleen

Found this info about “higher grade school” (12- 16 yrs old) class time 25 -30 hours per week, no instruction on Saturdays. Day and Evening sessions. Evening session was for “artisans” i.e children who worked during the day

Source: Report of the Commissioners by Great Britain Royal Commission on Secondary Education, 1895 http://www.books.google.com

Class time 25 -30 hours per week, no instruction on Saturdays. Day and Evening sessions. Evening session was for “artisans” i.e children who worked during the day
Nothing on school unforms, but I found internet photos of Nottingham High School students in uniforms in 1920.

Don’t know that 2 degrees makes a difference, but I’m a bit compulsive about vertical after remodeling a 45 yr old house.

I rotated the image with a photo editor until the chimneys were vertical. I can send you the adjusted photo.

Our concern is “Are the bridge walls vertical?” If they curve , the shadows are shorten or lengthen.

Nancy

Do you think that 2 degrees makes much of a difference on May 10? If so, any ideas on how to correct the photo? Let me think about it too.

Colleen

We discovered building parts not level or plumb in the photo, so the image needs to be rotated about 2 degrees to compensate for the camera tilt.

Nancy