If the people outside include Mark and his wife, then the photograph must date from about 1910.
OS Grid Reference: 52°28'N 2°07'W
Name Origin: Old English leah clearing, wood, or perhaps the dative leage.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
LYE-WASTE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of OLD SWINFORD which is in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 1½ mile (E.) from Stourbridge. The population is returned with the parish. The chapel was erected by the late Thomas Hill, Esq., and is licensed, but not consecrated; it is calculated to contain about two thousand persons: the appointment of the minister belongs to the Hill family. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Unitarians. The village derives its distinguishing name from having been erected on the waste, and consists of numerous cottages, chiefly inhabited by workmen employed in the iron and coal works, &c., with which the district abounds. Several of the inhabitants are engaged in making nails, this being a species of manufacture which extends through a wide district, including the towns of Stourbridge and Dudley, and their neighbourhoods, which, abounding to a great extent in coal and iron-ore, afford the necessary materials for this branch of business; the nails being afterwards dispersed over all parts of the kingdom.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Lye, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Old Swinford parish, Worcestershire. The village stands near the boundary with Staffordshire, 1½ mile E by N of Stonbridge, is irregularly built, and has a station on the Stourbridge and Birmingham section of the G.W.E. and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Stourbridge. The township includes the village and a considerable surrounding tract. Acreage, S41; population, 6707. The manufacture of anvils, vices, nails, chains, anchors, galvanized iron goods, and firebricks is largely carried on. Lye Waste, around Lye village, took its name from being an uncultivated, appendage to Lye, but became settled by a numerous body of men, who acquired a right of separate freehold on the passing of an Enclosure Act, and is now thickly built over. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1839. Population, 6479. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £234 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was repaired and improved in 1858. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist, and Unitarian chapels, a cemetery, and a mechanics institute.
Pat Dunn has published three collections of old photographs of Lye and Wollescote, the first two being reprinted in one volume in 2003 as "Lye & Wollescote, the photographic collection" [ISBN 0-7507-3355-0], and "Lye & Wollescote, a third selection" [ISBN 0-7509-2817-4] in 2002.
These photographs from the collection show people mentioned in the webpages:-
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| Mark Whitehouse's plumbing and decorating business at
63 Stourbridge Road, Hay Green.
If the people outside include Mark and his wife, then the photograph must date from about 1910. |
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| An annual outing of the Lye and Wollescote Allotment and Gardens Association
in the 1950s.
Back row: Len Wood, Lottie Wood, Fred Whitehouse, Bill Willets,
Frank Dickens, George Albert Cook. |
| Lye Church outing to Malvern, circa 1930.
back row: Len Bashford, Cliff Taylor. |
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| Lye Church members at Arley, 1920s
left to right: Clarence Chance, John Forest, Percy Woolridge, Cliff Taylor, Len Bashford, Ann Brettell, May Norris, Mary Bradley, Maggie Chance, Elsie Whitehouse. |
| Enoch Boaler |
| Arthur Boaler
left: circa 1907 right: circa 1920 | 
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| Boaler workforce, 1920s
left to right: Arthur Boaler, Leslie Aston, Vera Boaler, Billy Bridgewater. |
Associated Families: Clift Lee Whitehouse
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