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Originally Posted by Merry
If the photos and negatives were found in another local house then is it likey the people from the mysterious number 18 had moved there? If we knew the address where the photos were found that might help!
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They were found in an outhouse of the house on the (large) estate of a prominent local family. The finder kept them ‘out of curiosity’ and has loaned them to try to find out more about them. The house in question was demolished many decades ago, at the time the photos were found. The estate is now a massive housing estate, no trace of the house exists. Nor the family who owned it, well not in this area. Coincidentally waaay back I did know the grandson of the original owner of the house - but after the estate was sold he went to Australia, and never heard of him since.
However, we are surmising that the owner in Alexandra Road and the estate owner could have been friends - hence the informal photographs of people enjoying themselves in the garden. There’s no reason to think the owner of the house on the large estate, moved to Alexandra Rd. Certainly the grandson didn’t - he lived in the family home.