Policemen everywhere! Date and touch up please

[chinakay]

I've just been looking at images of that funeral and I don't think there's enough pomp etc for it...not enough outriders, military, and the furry feathery shako coverings, there were a lot of white ones in the photos I saw.

Good input though, you may be onto something...who else died around that time who would warrant a big procession?

[chinakay]

Florence Nightingale did...but the photos show two coachmen. I still think the carriage looks too tall for a horsedrawn hearse...

[chinakay]

Here's some photos of corteges, surprisingly (to me anyway) they are still using the same type of carriage...one of the photos is from 2002.

Maybe the tall thing in the back is not a carriage...

http://www.ourgreatyarmouth.org.uk/page_id__245_path__0p3p41p72p.aspx

[chinakay]

How about the Fire Captain's funeral, London 1908?

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51268552/Hulton-Archive

[Ebch]

Is there not a big banner being carried behind the hearse? 
(This is getting like the ANY IDEAS pic  )

[Ebch]

And the Suffragettes were marching around 1910 - but would the police have worn white gloves to accompany them - maybe not 

[Geoff-E]

Many of the crowd are just walking along, paying no particular notice to the procession. 

[Bilge]

http://www.northants.police.uk/museum_new/exhibits/15/history.htm

this gives a basic description of uniforms.

http://www.met.police.uk/history/archives.htm

[Bilge]

No.1 dress is worn with black, polished shoes or boots. Constables and Sergeants in English and Welsh forces wear the Custodian Helmet with this dress, whereas the peaked cap is worn by Inspectors and above. At more formal occasions, such as funerals and parades, white gloves are worn.