On the Road. 1935.

A fortunate find from a house clearance shop, this album of 36 photographs (see the complete set here) charts a motoring holiday taken by a family and their dog in 1935. Their car numberplate indicates that they probably lived in London. They toured around the western Scottish highlands, and also visited beauty spots in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Mirfield, Yorkshire. 1890s.

People wearing their Sunday Best in the industrial town of Mirfield, Yorkshire.

Men and children

A soldier and his boy.

Men with children. Where are the mothers? In some cases they may have been dead. It seems to have been more common in the past for studio family portraits to have been taken with only one parent (or grandparent) present. 

Yorkshire

From a photographer based in Burnley and Padiham in Lancashire

Girls with fans. Bingley, Yorkshire.

A fabulous group of girls, all holding fans, and a stereotypical hatchet-faced school mistress. She looks terrifying! There's a name scratched on the wall behind them. I think it says "William Wallis".