Uniform Identification

[MattieC]

Can anybody tell me what sort of uniform this is please?  I believe the photo is of my Gt gt grandfather who served with Liverpool City police for 25 years and retired in 1908.

[km1971]

If you have the original photogragh can you rescan the top half of his body only at a much higher resolution.

The stripes on his right cuff look like the overseas service chevrons they used during WW1. But from his likely age I doubt that would fit. If you contact a police museum they may be able to say if the police had similar devices. The two medals on the left breast could be military or those issued to the police for long service or a coronation or jubilee - but much better scans are needed.

Ken

[braw]

Medals conferred to a recipeint are worn on the left breast whilst medals of a late relative are worn on the right breast,I might be wrong 

[cati]

Judging by the fact that he's wearing a bow tie and a peaked cap, could he have been a commissionaire?

[km1971]

The medals on the right breast may be his, but unofficial so cannot be worn with official ones.

Ken

[Jean McGurn]

Judging by the fact that he's wearing a bow tie and a peaked cap, could he have been a commissionaire?

The Corps of Commissnaires wore white peaked caps but I am not sure when they started wearing that uniform.

As he is wearing a bow tie wonder if it No 1 Uniform?  Also being in Liverpool he may have worked for either the Customs House or the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board as they would have had commissionaires.

Is it possible to enlarge the cap badge it may give a clue. Liverpool Police I think would have had the Liver Bird on it.

Jean

[MattieC]

Thanks for that info.  I did send a copy of the photo to Liverpool Maritime Museum but they did not recognise it, they too suggested it might be a commissionnaire's uniform but gave me no idea what sort of commissionnaire.  The info. re - docks and harbourmaster rings a bell with the Trinity house connection which my brother (now deceased) once told me, that somebody in the family was connected with Trinity House.
Is there anywhere that I would be able to find more info. and uniform pictures for this particular area as I was unable to find anything on Trinity House website?  I am new to all this so it is possible I was looking in the wrong place.
Thank you so so much as I am getting a slow step closer to finding out about this lovely old man who was greatly loved by my father (it was his grandfather) and my mother. 
I do remember that my father once told me he had wanted to go to sea when he was a boy and had a life-long love of ships and liners but was prevented in so doing because his grandfather had refused to sign the forms saying it was too dangerous.