For original picture see ALC02142. The lad watching in a cap was Harry Victor Barker, Alan Brook’s mum’s dad. He was so fired up by watching these recruits that he subsequently signed up himself, lying about his age to do so. He went to France and…
Three John Pickles employees, Tony Summerscales, apprentice foundary pattern maker (on left) Gainger Lee, apprentice centre lathe turner (centre) and Derek Pollard, apprentice fitter, on the right. c1959