Identify this photo please

[horseshoes]

http://tinypic.com/us...SMJwpoTS1Joh4l5k2TGxc

I don't know if anyone can help. Do you recognise the hotel? What do you think this is? I notice that there are no women or children present - perhaps a recruiting drive. Do you know what make car is? I'd like your ideas. Thank you all in advance.

[horseshoes]

http://tinypic.com/us...SMJwpoTS1Joh4l5k2TGxc

Try this link to see all 3 postcards. The 2 Salcombe ones are not quite the same on the reverse. None of them have a publishers name just POST CARD. It occured to me that if by some fantastic coincidence, those men in the car may be a team taking part in the Regatta, and the G5 number is their entry number, but it wouldn't explain the absence of women and children so I think that idea is not a very good one. Oh well thinking caps on again.

[dothawkes31]

For one thing the weather is totally different and so the picture with the car whith snow on the road and people wrapped in warm winter clothing is not at the same time of year as the regatta where women are just wearing thin bouses and summer hats whilst on open water!

[dothawkes31]

the regatta takes place in July/August see here: it's the 152nd this year
http://www.kingsbridg.../regattasalcombe.html

[dothawkes31]

I've just done some searching and I am wondering if the first photo is actually the funeral of the lost lifeboat crew in 1916, it is a later date than thought but if you read about the tragedy it was the biggest event to hit the town. the boat was the William and Emma and the schooner was the Western Lass, 13 men were lost. It happened in October 1916.

[dothawkes31]

http://www.devonherit...elifeboatdisaster.htm

[jno]

as Dot says, it doesn't look like regatta weather in the first photo! Very brrrr.

[Vagrant]

Identifying the car would provide an earliest date for the photo.

[dothawkes31]

Use the panoramic viewer on this link, I think the pub is the Kings Arms Salcombe
http://www.kingsarms-salcombe.co.uk/

[dothawkes31]

The panarama goes round to show the half cladded wall zac. I know what you say about the hats, but the hearse has not got to them yet probably, it is not in site on the road. It makes perfect sense, Salcombe is famous for the lifeboat, there's nothing else there.

[dothawkes31]

*sight. Plus if you google a modern picture off the Kings Arms it is ust the right size building with a similar elevation and windows, but the steps and portico have gone, probably to make way for a widening of the High Stteet

[dothawkes31]

the picture is a around 100 years old Zac and in that time roads and traffic have had a huge impact, there's only one portico in the picture the other is a bay window, which could well have been removed, the modern picture I have looked at shows it to be on a corner of a road that leads down to the sea and on the other side an attached buikding set half way back into it's side wall. Nothing else around it.

[dothawkes31]

http://salcombe.co.uk...e=streets&ss=1&ssp=30

[dothawkes31]

Having looked at several pubs for my own Family History I have seen quite dramatic changes to the front elevations due to pavements having to be added and tarmac being invented Zac, there don;t seem to be any other large pubs in Salcombe that come close, plus the rear view on the panoramic viewer does show the half clad side elevation exactly like on the photo, but I'll look for other possible pubs anyway.

[Vagrant]

The badge looks like it could possibly be Ford.

[dothawkes31]

what is the white round fabric covered thing hanging from the drivers side? It looks temporary to me, that's not where a spare tyre would be surely.