{"id":65969,"date":"2010-06-23T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65969"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:14:43","slug":"help-1951-festival-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65969","title":{"rendered":"Help &#8211; 1951 Festival of Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2415\" height=\"1168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65968\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.0737704918032787;width:755px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1.jpg 2415w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-600x290.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-1536x743.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-2048x991.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-150x73.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0001516-1-400x193.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2415px) 100vw, 2415px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>We asked for \u201dHelp is definitely needed here as we didn\u2019t know what was happening and who the pupils were in the photograph.\u201d Peter Spearpoint tells us: \u201dZetland Juniors in Duncan Place; Old King Cole\u2019s band, the boy in white suit on the right is Peter Spearpoint; &nbsp;I have the photograph at home!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back row: Peter Thompson, Brian Richardson, ??, Ken Fawcett, Peter Spearpoint, Pam Middleton, ??, ??, Keith Wilkinson?, ??, ??.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Front row: ??, Dorothy Harmer, Rosemary Stonehouse, ??, ??, David Bramwell, Barbara Southwick.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Thompson tells us: \u201dI seem to remember performing this at the town hall so whether it was for the Festival of Britain, 1951, I don\u2019t know. If it was 1951 I would be seven and a half years old. This was a playlet based on the nursery rhyme \u201cOld King Cole\u201d. The two in the front row in romper suits are either both mice or a black cat and a white mouse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Marian Toulson<\/strong>, <strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>We asked for \u201dHelp is definitely needed here as we didn\u2019t know what was happening and who the pupils were in the photograph.\u201d Peter Spearpoint tells us: \u201dZetland Juniors in Duncan Place; Old King Cole\u2019s band, the boy in white suit on the right is Peter Spearpoint; &nbsp;I have the photograph at home!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zetland-juniorsduncan-place","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79148,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969\/revisions\/79148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}