Eliza Jane Sprigg, Hannah Clark and Florence Bland Holt

The photo shows three women in Victorian dress taking tea on a verandah. The women are from left to right Eliza Jane Sprigg, her sister Hannah Clark and actress Florence Bland Holt. The donor of the photo believed it to be taken either at 166 Wellington Parade or Cliveden Mansions. However Eliza Sprigg's home, 166 Wellington Parade, was built of red brick c.1908 and does not fit the style of architecture or the costumes of the women shown in the photo. [See link below]. The Bland Holts lived at Mere House, 176 Wellington Parade from 1904 to 1919.

The 1899 MMBW map shows 176 Wellington Parade to have a particularly deep verandah running around three sides of the front facade, with adjacent garden.  This suggests that this is where the photo was taken.