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From Rod Fry: In
sorting some of my books the other week I found in a copy of Cooper,
JJ, "Some Worthies of Reading", Swarthmore Press, 1923, a family
photo. I judge the date based on photos of my grandparents to be
ca 1900-10.
Unfortunately the book has no names on the flyleaves, or anywhere
else. I think I bought it a good few years ago for
pennies. Probably in the second hand bookshop that used to be in
Reading.
If anyone can claim the family or recognise the place then they can
have the photo. They are standng outside the ivy covered entrance
and look a well-to-do family.
This is a 400x400 pixel image (27Kb) - the full size 3in square
file is 130 kB. I can't be sure that it is a Reading
family, but it's a reasonable first guess when found in a Reading
book! If you want a copy of the full file I can send that.
Of course the old Victorian style house may have been pulled down and
there is very little of it in the image to identify, unless there is
someone with great familiarity of old Reading streets and their houses
- it could of course be in the surrounding country. If the
gentelman was prosperous, perhaps the face could be fairly well known
from those days.
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