BUILDING DECORATED WITH FLAGS Town Hall? UK LOCATED! Dunbar

[StanleysChesterton]

Well done. How did you find that?

Too many hours Internet searching and building skills.

I looked at it ... and it took me 3 minutes to find it.... never even heard of Dunbar... I'd have thought that was a made up name for a black and white 1950s movie

[Ruskie]

Well done. How did you find that?

Too many hours Internet searching and building skills.

I looked at it ... and it took me 3 minutes to find it.... never even heard of Dunbar... I'd have thought that was a made up name for a black and white 1950s movie

Can you be more specific? 

Well found though. Now I can stop trawling through the 1911 England census.

Added: did you find out what the building was and if it still exists?

[001uk]

I would suggest that it is a port city/town.  The flags look like signal flags (plus a couple of red ensigns) and there is a naval rating in the group out the front. 

Nell

Thanks neil.
It has been suggested to me (via PMs) that the flags might even spell out something! Naval rating spotted.

[001uk]

As Grahame (with that spelling) is not a particularly common name in England, and this does look WW1 related, I had a look for the name on the 1911 census. Scanning through the residences to see if any might be coastal locations, there are a few, but of those I checked, none were shopkeepers. The location may not have been coastal either I suppose .....

I would need to check further but I thought that the surname Grahame was Scottish, though in my quick look through the 1911 I found several living in the N, NE and NW of England, so the surname probably won't help with the location.

Is it a photo or a postcard? Is there anything on the back?
[/quote]

Thanks Ruskie. Good thinking re looking for coastal towns on the census (1911). I noted Devonport and Fowey so checked 1919 and 1914 Kelly's Devon & Cornwall but zero Grahames (except for a Private individual in Torquay.

It is a postcard but nothing on the reverse.

[Jamjar]

I would suggest that it is a port city/town.  The flags look like signal flags (plus a couple of red ensigns) and there is a naval rating in the group out the front. 

Nell

Thanks neil.
It has been suggested to me (via PMs) that the flags might even spell out something! Naval rating spotted.

Here you go, something to play with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags

[001uk]

Not that it helps with identifying the place.

Correct!

[001uk]

The image is on this site:

http://www.lostdunbar.co.uk/harbour.html

Dunbar.

StanleysChesterton BRILLIANT research. I checked the website and the very photo as you say is there. How on earth did you manage that?!  (You've taken the wind from my sails....or should I say flags)?!Thank you very much.

[HeatherLynne]

Have you seen Staneys Chesterton's reply #7? It's Dunbar, Scotland.
There's  new housing development in the town called Grahame's Place too. 
I took a quick 'walk' down the main Street on Google Street view but most of the buildings are 3 windows wide, not 5. My tablet's playing up so gave in.

[Ruskie]

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