This photo is from the collection of Leeds postman Tom Wheldon (also spelt Weldon) who served in 1/8 Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment during WW1 and was a veteran of the Boer War. The handwriting on the face of the photo is Tom's.
The following postcard was sent to Tom and his fiancee Maggie Walker by the couple on the right of the picture, Albert Ernest Wray and his wife Harriet.
Albert Ernest and Harriet are shown with their daughter Mabel Winifred (b 1895), the child of Albert's first marriage to Ada West. Ada had died of heart disease on 19 January 1901 and was buried in Woodhouse Cemetery Leeds (information courtesy of Yorkshire Indexers). Albert married Harriet Rogers in 1903.
Seated on the left of the photo is Albert's younger brother Frederick William. His wife Louisa is standing to the right with their daughter Edna Mary (b 1902).
The date of the photo is probably 1904/5 when Mabel was 9 or 10 and Edna 2 or 3 - Tom Wheldon married in early 1906 so a later card would have been addressed "Mr and Mrs" rather than "Tom and Miss Walker". Also Frederick and Harriet had a son (also called Frederick) in early 1906, and Albert and Harriet had a son Sydney in 1907.
The card was signed "B & H" suggesting that Albert was normally called Bert or Bertie.
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