Street Party Date Please

[JohnCH]

I can remember the Coronation and the children's party very well. There is a degree of austerity everywhere in this photograph, which tells me that it's earlier. There would have been street bunting too and most houses would be displaying some flags etc. from their upper windows, as was the case in 1953. We had to take with us our own knife fork and spoon, with a beaker and a plate, [all identifiable] and there would have been much more evidence of food than there is in this image. We also had crackers and party hats!
That IS a bomb/blast shelter, so that convinces me that it's late 1940s.  John CH.

[billkent]

I would say it was a VE day celebration party, the air raid shelter has a blast wall in front of the door, the entrance was through the narrow gap seen between the wall and the main building, they usually smelt terrible, many children who had been evacuated had returned by then,(including me) often a piano would appear from nowhere, houses with gardens large enough usually had an anderson shelter some without gardens had morrison shelters indoors.

[farmeroman]

1945 it is then. Thanks to you all for your contributions to the discussion.