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All these photos are local but are unidentified or only partly identified. It would be great to find out where, who or when. Can you help?

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A mystery couple in the Tom Burgoyne collection. Believed to be local to Nuneaton. (Clare Speight)
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A Nuneaton group but who are they and what is the occasion? (Bob Brackpool Collection / Courtesy Liz Hunt)
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Where and when, and do you recognise the pupils?
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Our oldest mystery photo taken on March 11th. 1859. Does anyone know this local lady?
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This is a local Co-Op store. The taller fellow on the right is John Reginal Johnson. Can you identify the others and indeed the store involved.
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These dinitaries are Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council probably in the late 1950's with our local MP Frank Bowles on the right. Can anyone recognise these characters. (E.V.Openshaw)
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Can you recognise these fine chaps in Carnival costume?
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Bob Brackpool, the well known Nuneaton photographer is knighted by the Nuneaton King of Mirth? The photo was taken by Bob's daughter Liz outside the photographer's business where he worked, Openshaws in Queens Road. (Liz Hunt)
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Which Nuneaton people are doing the Okey Kokey in this photo, and where? (Stephanie Southall Collection)
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Does anyone recognise the Attleborough church participants in these services. The Vicar is the Rev. Fifield. (Stephanie Southall Collection)
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Nuneaton school teachers, but which school? And who are they? (Stephanie Southall Collection)
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The young men of Nuneaton pre-WW1. Can you recognise anyone? (Sue Palmer Collection) (Top Row - second from left - Tom Burgoyne)
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Nuneaton Board of Guardians. The town's most eminent men gather for this photo. Can you identify them?
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Stockingford canoeists 1955 - can anyone recognise themselves or their friends and teachers? Any idea where the location is? (Charles Cook)
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A presentation featuring the Nuneaton Carnival Queen but what year? I can identify Alderman Reg. Hadden the gentleman towards the left but who are the other participants and what is the venue?
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A lovely family in Nuneaton sometime in the 1920's or 30's. But who are they and which street is this. Could it be their golden wedding anniversary? (Tom Burgoyne Collection - courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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The old Victorian couple pictured in the family photo above. (Tom Burgoyne collection - courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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Do you recognise these Nuneaton ladies? (Tom Burgoyne Collection - courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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Another large gathering of town worthies. Definitely Nuneaton this one, but where? I recognise faces of local dignitaries and the photo was taken by Leonard Chettle of Nuneaton. (Tom Burgoyne, courtesy of Ian Burgoyne)
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1st Nuneaton Boy Scouts.
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The children of St. Joseph's School, Coton Road, Nuneaton, 1957. Where are they now? Can you identify them. (Dr. Kevin Woodward)
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Who are these ladies out on a bus trip? (Tom Burgoyne, courtesy of Ian Burgoyne)
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Does anyone recognise members of this lacrosse team. The fellow top left is Tom Burgoyne, Ian Burgoyne's grandfather. Gerry Ruck contacted me and said this was a popular sport around Manchester which figures because I suspect that these players are sons of workers and managers at the Anker Mill of Fielding & Johnson. Before Fielding Johnson the business was owned by a consortium of Lancashire cotton manufacturers and Fielding Johnson's was known to generations of locals as the "Cotton Factory". (Tom Burgoyne, courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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This wedding is at Attleborough, possibly in the 1980's or 90's but who are the happy couple? (Peter Bayly)
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Do you know this lovely girl. From an unknown family album. Please get in touch.
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A leonard Chettle photo but who is she? (Tom Burgoyne, courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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Another young lady whose identity is unknown. (Tom Burgoyne, courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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Who is this lovely Victorian girl? (Clare Speight)
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THIS PHOTO HAS NOW BEEN IDENTIFIED see Local People section. Thanks to the magic of the internet. (Ruby Atkins Collection)
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This is a magnificent photo from the archive of Clare Speight the eminent Nuneaton photographer, but we do not know who he is. Can you help? (Jean Lapworth Collection)
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Who are these lovely kids? Pictured on Attleborough Square, Nuneaton. (Anne Paling Lawson)
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Sporting chaps on a farm at Caldecote possibly engaged in rural sports. The only gent I can positively identify is Tom Burgoyne senior (Standing Left). Can anyone else help. (Tom Burgoyne (jnr. courtesy Ian Burgoyne)
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A Gilbert & Sullivan production at the Hippodrome, Nuneaton in the 1920's or 30's. Does anyone recognise the artists and can verify the year?
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A carefully posed Bedworth school scene, but which one and when?
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A Bedworth family. Does anyone recognise their ancestors?
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Collycroft school kids 1907. Does anyone recognise their youthful grandparents or great grandparents?
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The interior of a Bedworth factory, but which one. I have a feeling this might be Pickering's hat factory in the 1920's but cannot be sure.
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A Stockingford Bus, but can anyone identify the vehicle, who owned it and who the crew are? (Ruby Atkins) Anne Murray identified that these were Lawrence's Buses of Grove Road, Stockingford.
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The same Stockingford bus company but again can anyone identify the bus or the kid? (Ruby Atkins) Lawrence's Buses see picture above (Anne Murray).
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A lovely girl recorded by Clare Speight the well known Nuneaton photographer. Again a mystery lady to whom we would like to give a name and a bit of history.
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Does anyone recognise this fellow? He drives a smart car. Somewhere in Nuneaton. (Colin Yorke)
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A grocers shop in Bond Street in the 30's. Does anyone recognise the families involved.
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A large gathering of kids probably in the 1950's. The ladies/gents toilet might give away the location but what is the event which brought these children here?
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All we know this couple are John & Ida but who?
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Bedworth townsfolk from the Warwickshire County Graphic 1925 (courtesy of Rod. Grubb)
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Ensconsed in his magazine "The Camera", but do you recognise him. In the Nuneaton area. (Colin Yorke)
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Cycling along somewhere in Nuneaton, but who and where? Sue Bates thinks this might be Earls Road, Nuneaton. (Colin Yorke)
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Anyone recognise the family? (Ruby Atkins)
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Does anyone recognise team members and the team. Nuneaton area. (Ruby Atkins)
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These are Nuneaton Co-Op staff, we know some of the names but would love to hear from you if you recognise anyone. The year is, of course, 1972 (Denise Oakwell)
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A Bedworth photo. The pit tip is a focal point, but who are they and what is the occasion?
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Courtesy of Rod Waters - Norah Taylor's son.
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Queens Road school, Nuneaton 1910. The girl standing at the back extreme right - Norah Taylor - emigrated to Australia with her parents Henry & Hannah Taylor and arrived there on 19th January 1914. (Rod Waters - Norah Taylor's son)
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The Co-Op Hall in the 1940's. Whose band is playing, what is the year and occasion? (Jean Lapworth collection)
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A Nuneaton factory interior - but which factory. They look to be making clothes.
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This photo first appeared in the Bedworth Echo in the 1980's, and was taken of Mill Street Methodist Church Ladies Guild. The picture was taken at the back of the old Methodist chapel which burnt down in 1941 due to a blaze caused by a stove which overheated and set the church on fire. The Church was built in 1845. We know a few of the names of the ladies but can you complete the picture: Back row left to right: Vera Sidwell, Mrs. Bently -?- -?- -?- Mrs. Gilbert -?- -?- -?-Mrs. Knight -?- Edna?, Mrs. Sutton. We only know the name of one lady on the middle row Gladys Henton fourth from the left. Front row: Mrs. Morris, -?- Mrs. Jacques, Mrs Martha Gibbs, -?- -?- -?- -?- -?- -?- Photo was supplied By Mrs. Bradbury of Baker Street of Blackhorse Lane.
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The White House public house. A crude but interesting water colour of a pub said to be local to Nuneaton. It is thought that this might be in the Chapel End area? It does not appear in Licensed Victuallers returns. Someone suggested the Plough at Galley Common. Any suggestions?
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An air raid shelter at Griff. Who is sitting on top - is it male or female?
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A family at Griff obviously but does anyone recognise a relative?
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A group of ladies at an unknown factory location in the Nuneaton area. But where is it, who are they and do you know what was the occasion? (Anne Lawson)
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A lovely image of Nuneaton carnival day sometime in the 50's. Does anyone recognise the kids. The Albion buildings in the background. (Colin Yorke)
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Carnival day in Nuneaton in the 30's. Hart & Levy's factory in the background. (Anne Lawson)
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This photo was taken at Nuneaton Trent Valley station and they are almost certainly all railway staff off on an outing somewhere. Vic Holloway procured this photo and tells me that this was the St. John's Ambulance Railway Division attending a St. John's Ambulance Competition, but the identities of participants is not currently known, or the year. (via Vic. Holloway)
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Nuneaton Girls School 1880. Does anyone recognise your ancestor?
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This photo is a gathering of Nuneaton tennis club in the 1930's. But can anyone recognise the occasion. Presumably presentation of the cup in the centre of the picture was the main reason for the gathering. (Anne Lawson) Anne Lawson has provided some names. The lady on the extreme left, 3rd row from the front is her mother - Ida Robinson, next but one along same row is her sister Marjorie who died in 1938. Behind Marjorie is Rex Jeffcoate. Next to Rex is Max Marriott and just to the right of Max is Dorothy Robinson. Max and Dorothy married in 1938.
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Who is this lovely lady. What a dress!
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A group of Nuneatonians stand outside the premises of the Nuneaton Electrical Contracting Co. In the 1921/2 street directory it gives the address of this firm as the Market Place, but this does not look like the Market Place in Nuneaton at all. Its more like one of the suburban streets, but where? And what is the occasion? (Ken Orgill Collection)
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A lovely family. I like the waxed moustache particularly, but who are they?
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Nuneaton King Ed's Rugger Team for the 1926/27 season. Does anyone recognise individual players? (Anne Lawson)
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Young people having a good time in the gloaming. A 1930's party at a house nr. 55 Heath End Road, Nuneaton. Do you think there might have been some kissing carrying on as the night wore on. (Anne Lawson) anne has provided some more information - her uncle Fred Taylor who married Alice Robinson in 1940 is behind the gent with his feet up. Anne's gran, Lizzie Robinson (nee Bostock) is to the left of Fred. Also on the photo is Anne's mum Ida Robinson, her uncle Maurice Stevens who married Betty Robinson in 1943.
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The Home Guard, Nuneaton, look remarkably like "Dad's Army" on the TV. (Ron Hartill)
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This came out of the Mallabone family album. But who is she?
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From the Mallabone family album?
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From the Mallabone family album?
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From the Mallabone family album (Lynn Wilkes)
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From the Mallabone Family Album (Lynn Wilkes)
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From the Mallabone Family Album (Lynn Wilkes)
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Nuneaton Board of Guardians
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Who are the children here. This photo is also important for the photographer whose photos are relatively uncommon. (Anne Lawson)
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I am grateful to Andrew Brown and John Bedingham for helping out identify these children. The second boy from the left sitting on the pavement is believed to be Andrew's Great Uncle - Albert Alexander of 72 Bracebridge Street who became an engine driver on the railway. He was secretary of the Railway Club and Allotment Society in Wheat Street. His father was Albert Alexander a time served engineer who married a Bailey whose family were miners from Ansley Village. They had two sons and four daughters: Hilda, Peggy, Albert, Kathleen (Andrew's grandma) Leslie and Clarice. Albert Alexander senior worked for Carter's gun and cycle depot in Bond Gate and was the only man in Nuneaton allowed to maintain Mr. Stanley's car with the wooden wheels. The car was always serviced and maintained on a Sunday. Andrew, his parents and grandparents lived at Nr. 72. Another one of the kids is John Beddingham's father, but who are the rest? (John Beddingham)
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This is a lovely group of old ladies, their faces full of character. (Anne Lawson)
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I have seen this chap before but cannot put a name to him?
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More nice local kids. Again we do not know who they are?
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A proud father with his daughter on her wedding day. Does anyone recognise the family?
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Another special wedding occasion. Everyone is splendidly attired. I think the church in the background is St. Pauls Stockingford.
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Nuneaton Carnival in the 1950's. Abbey Street. Does anyone know what year. (Alan Compton)
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A mystery location in the Nuneaton area. The house might be a give away as well as the railings which close off a piece of ground. Probably taken in the 1950's.