This 8x 6 inch framed photograph was found at a car boot sale in my home town of Wellington, Shropshire.
The back of the reads:
Bradford Grammar School Staff July 1939
The Photographer’s name is signed on the front Walter Scott Bradford.
The front row must have been asked to polish their (identical) shoes as they are gleaming.
Postcard bought from an Antiques Fair in Kinver last Sunday.
The back of the image doesn’t contain any information although the photograph shows the names of the people who lived at the properties in the windows above the doors.
Wilson , 7 Laurel Bank and Mrs W.Hoskin 5.
There is also another address at the top of the photo which reads 5 Noyna
I like the mixture of expressions on their faces and the few who have moved appearing like ghosts.
Unfortunately Laurel Bank is quite a common address and a search of google streetview hasn’t provided me with match.
I bought this small photograph (just over 2 x 3 “) and a few others from Wolverhampton Books & Collectables
No message or information on the reverse of this one.
I love the details in this image; the boy standing directly in front of the man, the subjects being off centre,
the cigarette and part of their reflection on the wet floor.
I bought this postcard at a Car Boot Sale in my home town of Wellington yesterday.
The card reads ” Uncle Joe – Great Pidgeon Flier”
The gentleman I bought the card from seemed to think the family came from Broseley.
Uncle Joe doesn’t look very pleased with the trophies and medals his pigeons won for him!
Postcard bought from an antique fair in Stafford with a collection of other photos.
This image was instantly my favourite and the message on the reverse was a bonus:
“I’m twenty one to-day.”
I wonder which of these ladies was celebrating her Birthday?
Another postcard from the boys at Horndean 1935.
The card reads ‘ Horndean 1935, L to R ‘Dave’ Davidson-’Baron’ Stratford-’Pony’ Moore-’Mick’ Macguire (God’s Gift)’.
They wore their trousers high back in the 30′s!
’Pony’ Moore was the only gentleman shown in this image and the cycling shot from a few weeks ago.
This Carte-de-visite is a bit of a mystery, I found it with others in an old book and can’t remember where or when I bought it.
The image doesn’t have any information regarding the photographer or the subjects but if you look carefully there are three figures in the distance sitting on a bridge.
I bought this postcard from Oswestry at the same time as the gents in a boat I posted a few weeks ago wouldham 1932
I’m unsure if they are the same group of gentlemen but this is one of my recent favourites as they all look so happy with their bikes!
The reverse of this postcard has more information and reads: Horndean 1935 – Cycled Aldershot to Weymouth
‘Aggy’ Weston-’Mash’ Evans-’Snerge’ Prince- ’Hank’ Cottingham-’Pony’ Moore-Self “Ruby’ Redlar-’James’Whitmey
Aldershot to Weymouth is well over 100 miles so these chaps must have been fit!
This image which measures 2″x 2.5″ was bought at an Antiques Fair near Stafford last weekend along with many others.
The two ladies in the photograph appear to have signed their names on the back Joan Plowman & Joan Bagby.
This probably would have been taken by a street photographer as it has a reference number on the right of the image (I left the number out of the scan).
The people in the background are almost as interesting as these two young ladies; the gentleman in the cap, the lady partly obscured directly behind them and the people in the far distance walking away.
I would say the image is 20′s/30′s judging by the fashions.
A photograph bought at a Antiques Fair in Oswestry.
No message on the reverse but the image itself tell us about the vendors.
The sign reads: H&D Hazlewood & Dent Ironmongery & Tools, Corner of Great Hamptons St & Vyse St, Birmingham Estb 1885.
The edges of the photograph are out of focus but it looks as though this is their stall, perhaps at a trade show or a fair.
I can spot a deckchair, brooms, lamps and a few other items.
Great Hampton & Vyse Street still exist this is where the Ironmongers stood in Birmingham, England.
