In the middle of the back row is Max Hoff. Seated 3rd from left Tony Greenwood, unknown, Rev H Turton, District Commissioner, Keith Newbitt. Front row left Stewart Gill, second from right Edward Clark.
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…
Merry Weather fire engine, named 'Alderman Pickles', of Todmorden Fire Service, heads a parade of engines. Photo taken in Cragg Vale, probably in the 1920s.
On 13 April 1923 the Todmorden & District News reported: