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Offline Claire64

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flags/bunting on an old photo
« on: Monday 28 August 23 19:50 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know what this event might be?  No date, taken in Stocksbridge, Yorkshire.  It was a large gathering of people, which wasn't unusual (they did love a parade, a gala and Whitsuntide) but this looks to me like something different.  Does anyone recognise the flags and what they might signify?
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Crossley (Penistone)
Rogers (Nottinghamshire & Stocksbridge)
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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #1 on: Monday 28 August 23 22:23 BST (UK) »
Could it be "Empire Day" celebrations?
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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 August 23 22:41 BST (UK) »
My best guess, left to right:

Canada, Britain, Italy, US, England, Australia or NZ?, Britain, Australia or NZ?, US, Serbia?, France, Britain, x, Netherlands?, x, Canada, Switzerland, US, x
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 11:38 BST (UK) »
  Edward VII coronation?
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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 11:48 BST (UK) »
Beat me to it TOTH, crowned in 1902.  Does what people are wearing fit that era?
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Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 13:06 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Erato on Monday 28 August 23 22:41 BST (UK)
My best guess, left to right:

Canada, Britain, Italy, US, England, Australia or NZ?, Britain, Australia or NZ?, US, Serbia?, France, Britain, x, Netherlands?, x, Canada, Switzerland, US, x

Maybe Malaya/Malaysia rather than US?
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 13:13 BST (UK) »
There appears to be the numbers 22 on one of the flags, if that is a date then it could be George V's coronation on 22nd June 1911

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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 13:19 BST (UK) »
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Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 29 August 23 15:18 BST (UK) »
  I thought first of George V, but thought the clothing was from a bit earlier - we need the costume experts!
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