But that doesn’t diminish my interest in the photograph.
It comes from David Harrop who has kindly given me access to what is a fascinating collection of letters, postcards and photographs spanning the late 19th century to the present.*
At the core of the collection are a priceless array of material from the two world wars which provide an insight into how people got on with their lives during these conflicts.
And so back to the photograph which shows a woman working in a back yard.
She could be a servant which is a reasonable guess given that she appears to be wearing a uniform.
But the picture was one of a number of which all the rest showed a young man from the Great War and so I guess she may be his grandmother carrying on a set of domestic chores on a warm summer's day.
Sadly I guess we will never know.
But it remains one of those pictures which draws you in and prompts a whole range of questions which is just as it should be.
Picture; unknown woman, date unknown, from the collection of David Harrop
*David Harrop, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/David%20Harrop
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