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help to solve a puzzle please
« on: Saturday 21 April 12 21:13 BST (UK) »
Can anyone tell me what activity these gents are involved in?
And maybe date it.Thanks

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Re: help to solve a puzzle please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 21 April 12 21:49 BST (UK) »
I would be surprised if this is not a choir. Time period - 1920???
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday 21 April 12 21:50 BST (UK) »
It looks like they are all whistling  ;D ;D

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Re: help to solve a puzzle please
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 21 April 12 21:58 BST (UK) »
I also thought that it could be a choir but the uniform does not look anything like a Welsh male voice choir uniform.
It is a negative of a scan of a brownie type camera negative.
Like the idea of a whistling party!!!

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Re: help to solve a puzzle please
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 21 April 12 23:53 BST (UK) »
It looks like a Swiss Yodelling Choir to me. See this video for a modern choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZL1aGxZjP4

And this page for a photo of another

http://www.heidiland.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=05_00_04&wr_id=10

If the sign behind them is advertising Surf then it must be after 1959

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Re: help to solve a puzzle please
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 22 April 12 02:33 BST (UK) »
Following on from the suggestion for Surf .... (a very clever spot  8) )

I see the advert is for DAZ, OMO, TIDE, ?, another TIDE, SURF, LUX, PERSIL

To me, this would only suggest Port Sunlight, but I'm too tired to investigate further.  :(

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 22 April 12 06:10 BST (UK) »
I'd go for Swiss yodellers based on the links posted by sussexbb  :D  You can see Swiss flags on the lapels of the gents in the closeup.

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 22 April 12 16:10 BST (UK) »
An early Opportunity Knocks prog (it started in 1956)?  Is that Hughie Green lurking at the back, trying to look artistic?

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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 22 April 12 16:25 BST (UK) »
A visiting Swiss yodeling choir
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