Sounds most interesting.
Do send image to me personnally
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David
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From: From: Local-History list on behalf of Brian Read
Sent: Thu 8/24/2006 14:49
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Subject: 1940 street photo
I recently found a box of glass plate negatives which belonged to my
uncle (1899-1962). Most of the pictures are of no interest outside
the family but one of them is a street scene which puzzles me and may
be of interest to a local historian somewhere. It may be part of
North Street, Bristol, but I don't know Bristol and am too far to
visit it.
I hesitate to attach a picture file here as I understand that
attachments are unwelcome to this list but I will send it as an
attachment to anyone who expresses an interest and thinks they might
be able to identify the location. The details are:
1. An almost empty city or suburban street with shops on both sides.
2. A tramline runs in the centre of the street with overhead power
lines.
3. The only vehicle in the picture is a small parked car which
appears to be a baby Austin or the like c. 1936.
4. The only person in the picture is a policeman wearing a cape who
stands with his back to the wall and appears to be watching the car
parked on the opposite side.
5. The absence of any traffic or pedestrians is puzzling but a clue
seems to be a large clock showing the time 5.35. Probably 05.35 -
unlikely to be 17.35. The clock is high up on the wall of one of the
shops (shuttered so possibly a jeweler)
6. One of the shops is named North Street Post Office and next to it
is one numbered 16 and called "The Mart" but this appears to be
empty. Names on other shops are not clear but one opposite the post
office seems to show "Wireless electric...wholesale Ltd."
I think the picture was probably taken in Bristol c.1940 as my uncle
lived there for a time. I am trying to find out what his address was
in Bristol as this may be an important clue. If not in Bristol it
may be somewhere in London as he later lived in Shepherds Bush and
then Chiswick. I suppose he could have been getting a picture of the
street in which he lived but it seems surprising that he did it so
early in the morning. The camera was very large and cumbersome and he
would have had to have it on a heavy tripod.
Any suggestions? Is there a web site on which pictures like this can
be shown for identification?
Brian Read
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