Identifying Photo Locations & Dates From Clothes

 

Please label all your photos with the names of the people, the place, and the date. This is esily done at the time. When you retire and want to write your life story, or a family history fro your grandchildren, or a company hsitory, it is invaluable. 

You can use a combination of clothes and backgrounds to date a photo later. The above photo was taken at the Alumni meeting, 2025, Friday September 19th, indoors without windows so no clues as to time of day, but from recent memory and the saved event programme I know it was  before lunch.

I was able to label photos of my late parents with the location, because my father identified a prominent building such as a castle, confirmed by another photo of her outside a hotel which had its name prominently.  Another dozen photos of my mother wearing the same yellow suit with different blouses were from the same holiday, giving us the date and location, and as I knew my mother's birthday I could work out her age using the time of year, before or after her birthday, using the background foliage,  background foliage, and signs about events.

Please share links to your favourite photos.

University or Sussex Alumni, official meeting photos and figures

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Luch for the alumni in the University of Sussex Refectory.Official Event photo. The architectural style, which some call Brutalism, featured visible brickwork.

Angela Lansbury, left, chatting to a teacher of languages over the buffet. The buffet included meat balls, salads, hummus, chocolate desserts. Official event photo.

Angela Lansbury beside alumnus Trevor Sharot at the alumni lunch in the former refectory still used for meals but with an upgraded name. Official event photo.

Trevor, alumnus, and statistician, at question time, asks about the number of students nowadays, He has been given a roving microphone.  Official event photo.

lar, masculine. Alumni, is plural masculine. It means former pupils or members of a school or university. Meetups are for alumni. A picture of one person is of an alumnus. For women only it would be alumna, singular, and alumnae, plural..

Here are some official photos of the alumni meeting at the University of Sussex.

The uni is on a big tree-filled hillside campus of multiple brick buildings, brick and concrete. The buildings are housing the library, students' union building, and departments. And a multi-storey car park.

The distinctive circular building is the Meeting house. It is a non-denominational chapel.  

A supermarket or two, enable self-catering and special diets. The student and postgrad accommodation is sufficient to house all the students on site. But more students are overseas in China.

We saw these buildings on a walking tour after our alumni lunch for the decades of 1960s and 1970s. 

The total numbers at last year's count for the year which runs authum to autumn, 2023-2024 was about 17-19,000 students, according to which source you take.

Photos

The people attending the event were all sent about seventy photos taken by the official photographer. My husband selected the ones showing himself and me and forwarded them to me.