Help With This Photo Please

[horseshoes]

I have this photo of a scene from my home town in North Wales. I'm trying to make sense of what im looking at. Is it an Armistice Day anniversary? What date? What are the flags? One looks as though it COULD have the word REMEMBER.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2num8vk.jpg

I hope this link works!

[Togo]

Just another point. I am not trying to give a definite answer to Shoe's question, just some ideas. I do though think that Armistice Day photographs are usually pretty well archived but a one off event in a place like Bangor may not be as well documented.

[TWR]

Sealed.

[Tilly2]

It's not Fiddler's Dram in Edwardian dress then? :-)

[Peter Pedant]

long answer which has gone down the tube

armistice day - later in the month Nov 1918

[Peter Pedant]

for people who like old photogz -
http://www.pariscinemaregion.fr/11-novembre-1918-archives-armistice-paris

( paris fete l'armistice - oops those who dont like 'forrin' keep out!)
I thought the French flas was hung upside down ( blue nearest hoist) but it looks OK by comparison )

[jno]

lack of males might just have been because it was a working day.

[Peter Pedant]

oh whilst I am at it
Chapel st ALtrincham
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596292/The-bravest-street-England-Road-161-men-joined-WWI-29-gave-lives-country.html

had 160 men join up ( 50% mortality )
when it was rediscussed someone asked - why dey do dat den?
and the commentator answered " I can think of three square reasons a day"

There is an archive photo of a street party but it seems to be gone

and since this is the time - the 'grateful villages' were the 25 in the UK who ..... sent men to the front and they all came back
Clearly NOT Altie

[bhg481]

If it was a WW1 celebration I'd be surprised if it was Armistice day itself - no time to put up bunting on that day but lots of flags waved (see PP's link). Most celebrations with bunting were done later (when the troops came home?).

[Togo]

//lack of males might just have been because it was a working day. //

Or all in the Pub?

[naomi24]

Definitely not Victorian or Edwardian. The clothes could fit any period from the end of World War I through to the thirties There were no coronations from 1910 to the thirties so it’s probably a celebration of the end of the war

[horseshoes]

Togo.......Telefusion? Opened by Ena Sharples? (Violet Carson).

Thank you all for your much appreciated input.

[Togo]

You have it there Horseshoes. I was with them for 20 odd years technical and management capacity. It was the first job I had when I moved up to Wales. What was supposed to be a day visit to a pal. He took me into work with him and told them I wanted a job. I was gobsmacked I had a job in S.O.T. They gave me an interview and employed me on the spot. I never went back to Staffs and have loved N.Wales since May 5th 1968.

[horseshoes]

Togo... Mr P.Corderey?

[Togo]

Now that name ring a bell Horseshoes. I was based in the Rhos on Sea depot until 1977/8 and then commuted to Bangor daily from Deganwy for about 5 years. In those days of course there were many similar companies and engineers and trained staff, including retail staff, regularly changed employers or were poached.

[Prudie]

Only adding because Bangor also has special memories for me. My grandparents lived there all my younger life until they died. When we used to visit they always took us out for lunch or afternoon tea in some old-fashioned hotel in the centre. Wonder if that was The Castle? Also always went to Llandudno for the day and over to Beaumaris on Anglesey. I was fascinated by Bangor pier, especially one of those machines that stamped your name out on metal strips. My grandfather was the District Valuer in the 60s.

[horseshoes]

Apologies to all for personal conversation with Togo.

P Corderey very often helps me with my postcards and photos when I need them dating. He often does the street scenes by aerials!! Also, he is a REAL expert on vintage/veteran cars. I know he worked at Telefusion.

[Togo]

Must admit the name Cordery is echoing down the years with the name Phil for some reason. Do you have rough dates or in what capacity. Was he on the tech staff or employed in one of the branches. The Town would be useful as well. Fusion had branches in most large towns from Holyhead to Chester at one time. I have just left a message for an 80 yr old co worker from that time. He is a wiz with names and will know Haha.

[Togo]

//He often does the street scenes by aerials//

That made me chuckle. That was my first job with them......putting up Aerials and installing TVs, before doing my tech training in electronics. Happy days.

[Togo]

Just another though. For a time, due to massive demand, contract Aerial riggers were used here in N Wales. Rum set of boys they were, laugh a minute and mental as anything.

[horseshoes]

Phil is correct Togo! I shall ask him what his job was.