Late again! As usual, better late than never though. The prompt photo this week featured boys at school playing some sort of game with their caps. I didn’t quite have anything like it, but I did have this, which, as the back of the photo states, is a Sunday School class in England probably around 1910 or thereabouts based on the older girls’ dresses. LOTS of caps and hats of all sorts! I’m not entirely sure where this was taken, but given the family that it came from, it was probably somewhere in the south of England in Devon or Cornwall. There’s still some family from the Battin branch that resides there, and I know Jessie (Battin) Powis kept in touch with friends and family. The pretty outfits and elaborate hats makes me think this was taken for Easter, but it’s hard to tell with not much other frame of reference other than that the grass appears to be green and growing.
As a side note, I’ve grown sort of fond of posting these photos I know little about through the Sepia Saturday project because I’m not sure I’d know what to do with them otherwise!
I love these old photographs, especially the large hats of the girls.