Do you recognise anyone in this photograph? It is taken approx 1924, on Alma Square, off Vauxhall St, Norwich. What occassion are they celebrating?
Do you remember Alma Square in old Norwich?
Derek James
Friday, February 10, 2012
2:13 PM
An appeal has been launched to discover why these people were having a party in the street.
Watch the birdie.... the people of Alma Square in old Norwich wait for the photographer to take his picture before they tuck in.
They had obviously gone to a lot of trouble to make sure this was a fancy dress street party the whole community could enjoy... but why?
“I would love to know what was going on and what they were celebrating,” said Selwyn Sutton. “Perhaps your readers can help?”
Several members of the Sutton family are on the picture. It is thought it was taken around 1924 in the square off Vauxhall Street which is now long gone.
“I can remember my father Charlie writing down the names on the back. He is on there along with various aunts and uncles and that first woman on the left was my grandmother,” he added.
“It’s a long time ago but there may still be some people around who are on the photograph or other people may have a copy and more details.”
If you can shed any light on it please email me at derek.james@archant.co.uk or call me on 01603 772420.
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Unlikely, I known, but worth noting that 1924 marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War. Alma Square was condemned as unfit for human habitation by Nowich Council in 1965. There was another Alma Square off Waterloo Road and Alma Terrace is still there.
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Red Steepler
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
What a wonderful photo I would think its earlier than 1924 maybe around 1918 because of the lack of men who were away fighting the 1st world war as apart form your father its all women, maybe they are celerbrating the end of the war..
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Any14tennis
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Could be celebrating this: April 23 – British Empire Exhibition opens. It was the largest colonial exhibition with 58 contries of the empire dramatically represented.
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kenneth jessett
Tuesday, February 14, 2012