We asked for ”Help is definitely needed here as we didn’t know what was happening and who the pupils were in the photograph.” Peter Spearpoint tells us: ”Zetland Juniors in Duncan Place; Old King Cole’s band, the boy in white suit on the right is Peter Spearpoint; I have the photograph at home!”
Back row: Peter Thompson, Brian Richardson, ??, Ken Fawcett, Peter Spearpoint, Pam Middleton, ??, ??, Keith Wilkinson?, ??, ??.
Front row: ??, Dorothy Harmer, Rosemary Stonehouse, ??, ??, David Bramwell, Barbara Southwick.
Peter Thompson tells us: ”I seem to remember performing this at the town hall so whether it was for the Festival of Britain, 1951, I don’t know. If it was 1951 I would be seven and a half years old. This was a playlet based on the nursery rhyme “Old King Cole”. The two in the front row in romper suits are either both mice or a black cat and a white mouse.”
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks to Janet Lingard (nee Thompson) who assisted by brother Peter Thompson (drum player in image!) for the updates; also to Peter Spearpoint for the additional update.
Yes,far right is definately David Bramwell