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Right, Rambling Rose. I've uploaded it to Keepsafe and made it open to everyone.

I have several family photographs left by my paternal grandparents and only a couple of them have names on the back.

I am pretty sure that two of them are of the Linge family who spread from Essex to Kent and London but I've tried various newspapers but no joy.

I have a lovely one of Grandad's cousin taken in Southend and I only managed to identify that because he was in Army uniform and the Army Museum helped me with the bits and pieces on his uniform and dated it to within a ten-year period. I checked all the male members of the family It was Arthur Mann Linge who died of enteric fever in an Essex Army Hospital within that ten-year period.

If you google.... Images for photography in the 1850s

you'll see the quality that some studios achieved and very impressive they are too.

Sue

If you google '1850s photographs' and look at images you will be able to see the clarity, it may also give you an idea of dress, which is useful for dating photos. Can you perhaps upload the photo so someone can take a look? perhaps to Keepsafe on here?

I wonder whether anyone could help, please?

Emma Doy (born to Charles and Susannah) apparently arrived in Australia in 1851 where she eventually married, settled down and died.

In my grandparents' effects there is a photo (very clear) of a young lady taken at Norwich and the only connection we have to Norfolk is through my great-grandad, James Doy. I think this must be a photo of one of his sisters.

The photo has the photographer's name on it and , after discovering they had amalgamated with another, I rang and spoke to a gentleman who said that his father and uncle had destroyed all the negatives they held at the beginning of WW2 because they felt it was dangerous to hold so many. I am not sure when this photo was taken but I wondered whether Emma had her photo taken before she emigrated and this is her.

Were clear photos taken before or during 1851?