Who do you think they are?…please help us identify these mystery photographs

Whilst we are able to put names to faces for many of the photographs in the ODFHS collection, there are some which remain a mystery.  Can you help us to identify anyone in these photographs?  If you can provide information about the date, location, occasion or subject, please email the ODFHS Librarian macdonald6465[at]gmail.com

Photograph 1 – dated December 24th 1947

Photograph 2 – Upholland Grammar School c.1927

Photograph 3 – Rothwell family group c. 1898

Photograph 4 – OGS Hockey Team 1932-33

Photograph 5 – Rigby collection, group of ladies, 1960s

Photograph 6 – Ormskirk Grammar School, 1958

Photograph 7 – Halsall Lane, ca. 1900

Photograph(s) 8 – a collection of family holiday photos, ca. 1930s

This intriguing selection of images is copied from a set of stereoscopic glass slides dated 1936 bought on Ormskirk market back in 1967. This is clearly a collection of holiday snaps from a well-to-do family with nautical interests and, although we can recognise some of the locations – Cornwall, Isle of Man, Scotland, & Denmark – there are few clues to whom the people might be. Do you recognise the family? Is it maybe yours?

We’ve managed to track down this fancy red car from its number plate. It’s a classic Hispano Suiza H6 32CV, still in ownership – see here for details. According to this website, it was originally owned by “…a director of Tate and Lyle…” at their factory in Speke. Might this allow us to track down the family? They probably lived locally.

This might provide some clues - captions on some of the slides
OCR of this slide (for search engine)...

38 MERCEDES - BENZ
37 M.Y. WHITE ROSE TORQUAY
36 A30ARD M.Y. WHITE ROSE'
35 AT RIVIERA CLUB.
34 JIM.
33 JIM.
32 MARGOT AND DOLLY.
31 BABS HUMBLECROFTS,
30 G. F. SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
29 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER
28 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
27 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
26 LANTIC BAY.
25 LANTIC BAY.
24 JIM SURFING PERRANPORTH.
23 LOOE
22 CHARLESTOWN.
21 CHARLESTOWN

Photograph 9 - Ormskirk parade, 1950s ?

Plus some unknowns from the Martin Bell/Cropper-Heyes family collection…

1. Young Lady sitting on a bench, c.1900-1910
2. Lady in a pale long-sleeved outfit (possibly a pinafore), c.1900
3. Young man in soldier’s uniform posing on what could be a gazebo or bandstand, c.WW1
4. Melling Brass Band, performing outdoors
5. Reverse of Melling Brass Band photograph
6. Young lady in hat and buttoned bodice; the style of clothing suggests that it was taken c.1875-1885.
7. Unknown man with side-parted hair, wearing a coat, waistcoat, and large knotted cravat; the style of clothing suggests that it was taken c.1850-1860.
8. Unknown group of two adult women, one adult man and a baby (possibly Eric Cropper) sitting on the grass, c.1920
9. Unknown group, including sixteen adults, one older girl (seated) and one young girl (seated) outside a house, c.1900
10. Unknown lady wearing glasses, c.1900. The photographer’s mount includes the name Van Ralty.
11. Unidentified house, possibly a farmhouse. It features two chimneys, two windiws on the ground floor, two windows on the first floor, and some time of trellis or lattice around the front door. Part of another building is visible on the left edge of the photo.
12. Two men and one boy posing in a car; this is likely to be a souvenir photograph taken at a fair or similar event.
13. A man and a woman standing by a gate with two horses, c.1900 (oval-framed)
14. Two boys standing by a tree; one about 12 years old (wearing a watch chain on his waistcoat), the other about 15 years old, c.1900.
15. Two couples standing by a wall, possibly in a garden, c.1900.