HELP PLEASE! Really grim photo needs restoring

[001uk]

Hello Irene,

Thank you very much for your reply and advice.

I'll have another go at scanning. I've inherited a much more advanced scanner than the one I previously used and haven't quite got to grips with it yet.
I'll check the link you kindly supplied.

PS Have attached a new scan at 496.5 KB and scanned at 1200 dpi. Hope this works. (Apparently this machine will scan up to 12800 !)

[001uk]

Possibly Kingston Police Football Club?

Howdy kizmiaz

Thanks for your suggestion. All gratefully received.I'll add this to the list. We'll get there one day.

[Craig M]

The Metropolitan Police area is split up into Divisions which are known by letters.

When the Met was founded in 1829 K Division was West Ham and surrounding area. Over the years the boundary has changed. Can you associate the photo with an area? Perhaps your family lived in what was then the K District? It stretches some way today so don’t just think West Ham.

It’s just possible that each Division fielded a football team against the other Divisions. I would have thought it would have said ‘K Div PFC’ on the ball, but maybe that wouldn’t fit on.

The Metropolitan Police Athletic Association organises all the sporting activities and I suggest you contact them. They might just recognise or even still have that trophy. The inscriptions might just give you the names in the photo.

The Metropolitan Police Football Club wasn’t formed until 1919 to play against teams outside the Police, so that can’t be the Met team. Obviously Policemen played football before that, so if it’s a Met Police team then it’s something smaller and more local.

[001uk]

Hello Craig M

Thank you for your interesting reply. I have actually been in touch with the Metropolitan Police Athletic Association and they had no knowledge of the KPFC. Possibly it was a little early for their records.

The only other thing I know about the card is that one of the players was more than likely on patrol in the Abbey Road area of London NW6 (where my grandmother was in service).

Having looked at the map I now see Kilburn was just a short distance away. Could it be Kilburn Police FC or Kilburn Park? I fancy the former.

IF that's so all I need now are the names of the chaps in the photo!

Thanks again

[allfulcher]

Hi,
   Regarding restoring the photo. I will do my best for you but give me a couple of days.

Allfulcher

[001uk]

Thank you Allfulcher.very kind of you.
I'm sure it would take me a couple of years!

[Cheryl16]

I have just had an idea... if you know that one of the people in the picture was on patrol in the Abbey Road area, have you thought about getting in touch with the local paper and asking them to run an " who is this?" article. They crop up in our local paper fairly regularly. Someone might see who can help.

[salmynka]

thats a good idea, our local paper does that too 

[Emjaybee]

Sorry just a mock up toshow willing