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Title: Possibly Manchester
Post by: wilcoxon on Wednesday 03 January 18 13:17 GMT (UK)
This was found in a box in a Charity shop.
D Yaffe , 3 Progress buildngs , Halliwell Lane , Manchester on the back.
That`s all I know.
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: wilcoxon on Wednesday 03 January 18 13:19 GMT (UK)
Another one in same box , no photographers name on this one.
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: heywood on Wednesday 03 January 18 13:31 GMT (UK)
I had a quick search and I think the photographers is still there.

I looked up F Bookbinder and sons and they were Bakers owned by Elkie Brooks’, the singer, family.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01l8y/

Looks to be the Whit Walks on both pictures.

The Bookbinder shop is possibly Cheetham Hill area - there is a bus stop for 59 bus which is on that route.

Heywood
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: heywood on Wednesday 03 January 18 13:41 GMT (UK)
Same place

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01l8z/
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: stanmapstone on Wednesday 03 January 18 13:42 GMT (UK)
The first photo is on Cheetham Hill Road Google Streetview https://goo.gl/maps/sGofJvkCX182
Euro Market is where Bookbinder & Sons was
Stan
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: richardanthony on Wednesday 03 January 18 14:37 GMT (UK)
I think its the Whit Walks procession, catholic churches around manchester. There is a video on you tube if you are interested.
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=whit+walks+procession#id=2&vid=996d6992ac74c47fce1b2f4ee1d7a1e6&action=click
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: stanmapstone on Wednesday 03 January 18 14:46 GMT (UK)
That link does not seem to work See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDLT5_VCvE
Stan
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: richardanthony on Wednesday 03 January 18 14:49 GMT (UK)
just go to youtube and type in whit walks procession there are quite a few there
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: Viktoria on Wednesday 03 January 18 19:55 GMT (UK)
It is quite possibly the Whit walks from St.Chad's at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Rd.
There was also a thriving Jewish community there,in fact that was the first area to be settled by Jewish immigrants,being so near Victoria Station.
The time seems to be the 1950's.
                           Viktoria.
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: heywood on Wednesday 03 January 18 20:15 GMT (UK)
The first picture doesn’t look like a Catholic procession to me - perhaps the local C o E - is that St Mark’s?
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: wilcoxon on Thursday 04 January 18 14:10 GMT (UK)
How interesting. I wonder if the person / family that the donations came from are in the photos somewhere.
it did have other mementos in the box  and a Beatles leaflet dated 1963. This suggests that someone  had died and there had been a house clearance. Usually the clearance firms  keep and sell the more valuable items and either send the rest to charity shops or the tip.
Luckily this box ended up in a shop.
It is of no use to me - so I wonder if there are any Manchester Archives  that might like it.
Title: Re: Possibly Manchester
Post by: heywood on Thursday 04 January 18 14:30 GMT (UK)
Have a look here

http://salfordandcheethaminfocus.co.uk