Unknown people
Can you put a name to any of these people?
A man is holding the reins of a horse which stands in the shafts of a gig. In the background is the working Post Mill and potatoes are growing by the side of the road.
The reverse of the picture says:-
'With best wishes for a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, from J.H. Rathbone'
John Henry Rathbone was born in Manchester in 1866 and married 22 year old Sarah Ellen Holmes in 1892 at St. Peter's Church.
Sarah was the daughter of a Northorpe farm labourer who presumably moved to find work since she was born at Old Frodingham. By the age of 10 she was back in Northorpe and, as a dressmaker, came to live on High Street, Scotter with her widowed mother Mary Ann who worked as a cook.
The 1901 census shows John and Sarah Rathbone living at Droylsden, Lancashire with their two children. He is listed as the 'secretary to a lads club'.
picture RJ15 from Roy Johnson - on land off Sands Lane
It is not known who these people are but they may have a Johnson or Rennison connection.
picture AL14 from Allen Limb
This officer is thought to have been a relation of Mrs Ellen Harrison of Cleatham.
picture UGW6 from David Capes
This picture was in David Cape's slide collection which he put together over many years.
The man might well be one of those listed on the War Memorial who served in and survived the Great War.
His jacket seems to indicate he was not an officer.
Unknown functions
Function (c1941)
picture KM1 from Ken and Dorothy Moden - unknown function (c1941)
Back row : Bill Naylor, Mr. Nicholson, Frank Hill, Arnold Barr, Chas Blakey, Gerald Powell, Jack Smith, Bert Carpenter?
Middle row : May King, Jean Harsley, D Watson, Marjorie Wilson, B Wakerley, M Wakerley, Ivy Sanderson, Celia Scupholme, Mary King.
Front row : Fred Juggins, unknown1, Miss Simms?, Margaret Vickers, unknown2, Mabel Hird?, unknown3, unknown4, unknown5
Unknown buildings
Photo by David Cape
The building has a stone ground floor and brick upper floor. It is not known who the people are or where it stood. As Grayson Clarke took the photo it will be from before 1910.