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Title: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Sunday 14 June 26 22:07 BST (UK)

  I have always thought this picture was taken fairly soon after WW1 and related to the "laying up" in church of some guards colours. I have just discovered that the event took place in the 1938, but I don't think this picture matches that date.

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: McGroger on Saturday 20 June 26 13:22 BST (UK)

Just moving this one up for some attention; it had dropped out of sight.
Peter

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 20 June 26 13:31 BST (UK)

It looks like it could 1920 looking at the style of the hats, maybe into the 30s...men's fashion didn't change all that much and some styles lasted longer than others. I wonder if it could be the "Jarrow March" in the 1930s.
Jim will give you a more accurate date when he comes online.
Carol

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Jebber on Saturday 20 June 26 16:57 BST (UK)

I agree with 1920/30s.  Not a Jarrow  march they are too smart and healthy looking. Possibly a parade of ex comrades. The photographer took other similar photos.

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Monday 22 June 26 11:38 BST (UK)

  Thanks, Peter - the mods had a query about the picture.
 I thought it was 1920s, and I am fairly sure there is military theme, which is why I thought it was the "laying up" ceremony. I have just thought it might be a British Legion event, though there are not many B.L. badges in evidence.
  Jebber - I have one other picture of this event - did you find any others?
 

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Jebber on Monday 22 June 26 11:50 BST (UK)

Yes a few,  I just googled the name of the photographer, the County and 1820s,

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 22 June 26 16:16 BST (UK)

Don't you mean 1920s....photography was in it's experimental phase in the 1820s.
Carol

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Jebber on Monday 22 June 26 19:13 BST (UK)

Sorry, yes that was a typo, blame it on the heat   ;D

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: oldfashionedgirl on Tuesday 23 June 26 08:58 BST (UK)

There are a couple of ladies in the background on the left wearing cloche hats which would indicate 1920s/30s.

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Viktoria on Tuesday 23 June 26 11:19 BST (UK)

I am a bit late to this post but Jebber is correct.
The Jarrow marchers were in extreme poverty, many miners ,many W.W.1veterans who were literally starving and so too their families .
It was an attempt to highlight the disgraceful neglect of WW1 soldiers who had returned home to extreme poverty and no work.
Especially in the N,E, but they were joined by others as they marched down to London to confront the government as their war service and poverty counted for nothing .
 Iktoria.

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: jaywit on Tuesday 23 June 26 11:54 BST (UK)

I agree it's something ex military.

I think the 2 men at the front carrying overcoats were perhaps officers and they were the only ones who could have afforded overcoats, so maybe autumn/winter .

Title: Re: Approx date for parade if possible please
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Tuesday 23 June 26 15:41 BST (UK)

  I also thought the men at the front were officers, especially the one in the bowler.