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Readers help us put more names to faces
Thursday 3rd June 2010, 11:36AM BST.
We’ve been having a good strike rate in putting names to at least some faces in our recent Pictures From The Past thanks to help from readers.
Richard Mapp of Bridgnorth has got in touch to identify his father and uncle amid the crowd in a 1937 photo of a Shropshire Young Farmers’ Club annual dance at Shrewsbury.
It takes a bit of navigating to identify them but here goes . . . there’s a man in uniform and a military-looking moustache, roughly in the centre of the picture, just behind and to the right of two men wearing bow ties.
Slightly behind and immediately to the right of that military man, as you look over the picture, is Mr Mapp’s father, Eddie Mapp, who looks as though he is peering over the top of the heads. Got him?
To find Richard’s uncle, there is a man just right of centre with a tie with diagonal stripes. Go above his head, and slightly to the left, and there’s a man laughing heartily – that’s Eddie’s brother, Bill Mapp.
“They both farmed at Bridgnorth. I think we’ve farmed on the same farm since 1870. At that stage they farmed together, at Bromley Farm. Had he lived my father would be 100 this June, and Bill Mapp would be 102,” Richard said.
Next up is a 1934 photo of Prestfelde School cricket team, Shrewsbury. Len Asbury, 89, of Shrewsbury said: “I can name most of the players for you. Tom Ridgway, Ken Wareham and myself followed Ken Woodhouse to Denstone College. Some years later Tom Ridgway was playing for a local team known as Cathedral and I occasionally turned out for The Accountants.
His lineup is, back, from left: Len Asbury, Bernard Anderson, Tom Ridgway, “Smith”, Harold Woodhouse. Front row: Peter Quine, possibly Michael Steward, Ken Wareham, Ken Woodhouse, Michael Hutt, “Sudlow”.
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