Old Mystery Photo

[dave the tyke]

Jan,
I never found the link. Gran used to joke that we would never see any of the money he won.
The connection might have been via Samuel Brook's marriage to Esther Ann Jagger 1876 but I didn't find the link. I think the Monte Carlo one retired to Pepper Hill at Northowram.

Redroger
They all look well past 'works dinner' age. I favour the Senior Citizens or Senior Parishioners Christmas treat

Dave

[Redroger]

True, even allowing for wartime staying on past retirement age! However, they could be former employees having a retired workers party.

[bykerlads]

Can anyone see what the food on the table is? that would give a clue to the type/season of the meal.
The flowers suggest Spring/early Summer- maybe Easter/Whitsun .
The "half" curtains suggest a cafe or similar as do the type of chairs. ( if it was a chapel "treat" in chapel rooms or a civic hall , fold-up chairs would be more likely, perhaps)
It seems incredible, but I can remember seeing older people in clothes like the ones pictured when I was a child in the 1950's: wrap-around flowered pinny-overalls, fox-fur tippets incl.fox's head and feet!, hats indoors etc.

[Calverley Lad]

Looking at the food on the table and the time on the clock.
Afternoon tea, jampot and buns is a sure sign.
Bars on the windows suggest to me a cafe.
 Brian

[dave the tyke]

I think we postulated earlier that the megaphone type lampshade could have been over a billiard table, it is possible to see the strings which pull it to the side. There is what looks like a billiard cue next to the door at the left of the photo. The 'bars' on the windows are on the outside and could well be railings. Too many staff for a cafe and I don't think we had many around earlier than the 60's, besides it wouldn't be the right venue for 'a bit of a do'
A social club could well be the venue.

[Redroger]

Wooden "Windsor" chairs so far as |I can see. The flowers appear to be daffodils, possibly an Easter event.

[dave the tyke]

The places are not set for a dinner, it looks like afternoon tea and cakes. The war time rationing ended for canned and dried fruit, chocolate biscuits, treacle, syrup, jellies and mincemeat in May 1950. It was 1953 before sugar was taken off and 1954 before meat and bacon were taken off and rationing finally ended.
one of the  cake stands looks to have butterfly buns on it and are those slices of rich fruit cake that I can see to the right ? taken together with the buns and jam pot spotted by Brian I guess that adds up to some time after 1953. Around Easter time as suggested by Redroger. What do you think ?

[Darlingtonian]

Just come across your great thread ...... had me in stiches ....... but gosh...I feel old....

Jean ...... forgotten what i was looking for initially .....LOL

[dave the tyke]

Jean - Collinson s ?

Jan do you recognise any of these people or names ?

May Ellis 1942
Also in picture are her husband Jack Bentley (24 years old in picture),  her husband`s father Tweedaledale Bentley (70) , her mother Alice Collinson (42 yrs), her father`s cousin Harry Ellis (42 yrs),  her husband`s mother Hannah Mary Tordoff (68 yrs)