Cycle Race - anyone know where?

[Ray T]

I still can't get my head round the size of the crowd - cycling wasn't a mass spectator sport in those days, especially for a time trial. If it was a team time trial for a big event, I wouldn't expect a bus to be parked on the route.

The lamp-posts look to be typical concrete 1950's to me.

[loobylooayr]

. I also tried distorting the image to see if I could make out the shop name next to Dewhursts, but without much success. quote from arthurk

I wondered if the shop sign next to Dewhurst  read - W FRY 

Looby

[BumbleB]

OH was road racing from the mid-fifties:

H says that it is probably a professional team = identical jerseys (amateur teams might wear "variations on a theme" club jerseys depending on when they purchased/acquired jerseys).

[arthurk]

I've found a site with details of some of the major 1950s events - http://www.tour-racing.co.uk/html/1950s_tours.html

Not all are covered, but there's quite a bit of detail on most of the ones that are. I didn't spot anything on which team wore orange jerseys, though someone might be able to find the information from other sources. And rather frustratingly, most of the ones listed seem to have had a stage passing through Yorkshire, though there are maps and route descriptions to narrow things down a bit.

Do you think we can get any further with this? I'm not sure I can.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Not that it helps at all - one of the poster adverts in the background is for Players Navy Cut cigarettes.

[loobylooayr]

Am I seeing things    ?
Is there something written on the side of the second cycle from the left?
Looks like writing with a date ? 195?

Or is my imagination running or even pedalling away with me?

Looby

[jess5athome]

Am I seeing things    ?
Is there something written on the side of the second cycle from the left?
Looks like writing with a date ? 195?

Or is my imagination running or even pedalling away with me?

Looby

  I think you may well be correct, it does look like it.

Frank.

[DavidG02]

Is that a Porter and Stouts sign on the left and does that help?

[jess5athome]

The building with the "Stout" sign looks to be a large public house / Hotel, I can't help wondering if the white stone post in the picture is a memorial of some kind or even a water fountain (the type where you could get a mouthful of water from a tap), I wonder what the building is running along the side of Dewhurst's butchers shop.

Frank.