Help With This Photo Please

[horseshoes]

I have this photo of a scene from my home town in North Wales. I'm trying to make sense of what im looking at. Is it an Armistice Day anniversary? What date? What are the flags? One looks as though it COULD have the word REMEMBER.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2num8vk.jpg

I hope this link works!

[jno]

those broad-brimmed hats look a bit like the ones Girl Guides wore in the 1910s and 1920s; so do the slightly flared coats. There seem to be a few Union Jacks without the Irish element, though I don't know why.

[horseshoes]

Togo is correct here; The Welsh dragon was not flown proudly as it is today.

[237SJ]

The uniform that the three ladies could have been anything. Even Nannies wore uniform in those days. It's a very difficult one.

[237SJ]

*could have been wearing*

[horseshoes]

By the way, the white building set sideways at the bottom of the right hand terrace was a bakery. We used to call in there on the way home from school for huge flat buns. 6d with cream and jam or 4d with just jam. Of course it wasn't real cream but a buttercream. They were absolutely delicious. Now demolished, as is the terrace on the left. Terrace on the right still exists.

[horseshoes]

District nurses?

[237SJ]

Are you on Facebook? Your local area might have a Facebook history page where you could post the photo and ask if anyone can enlighten you.

[horseshoes]

237SJ, that's exactly where it's from!

[horseshoes]

Where did you work Togo?

[mikey4444]

I'm tempted to say early 20's as well.

[Togo]

Morning Horseshoes. Logged off early last night. I was the service manager for a TV sale and Rental Company. We had a shop on the High St up towards the Cathedral, part of the frontage of the old market top of town. We had a workshop above the Market up two flights of wooden stairs. Boiling hot in the Summer with the part glass roof and freezing in the winter. Swains grocers was next door and a butchers downstairs. It used to stink some days but it was a brilliant, vibrant place to work. The company built a brand new workshop for us up at Llandegai after a health and safety man saw us carrying the old massive colour TVs up the stairs, he was gobsmacked. They used to weigh about a cwt. Loved the people. Bangor aye.

[Togo]

Did a bit of digging Horseshoes, and it seems that the 14th May 1886 was a very big day in Bangor. The Pier was officially opened by Lord Penrhyn and the whole town was decked out with bunting. Not only that the Quarry was, unusually, closed and it was Ascension Day to boot and therefor a public holiday. Back then this would have been a very big deal, hence even Kyffin Square sporting bunting.

[Khandro]

Celebration of the Armistice 1918/19

[dannyk13]

Could be a celebration of the end of WW1.The dress looks to be of that era.

[TWR]

I go over to Llanfair PG very often Togo, Bangor is my birth place, my so-call brother used to own the Castle Hotel until Watkin Jones ripped it apart, it has now become dirty , dismal & a dump, Rhyl is just alike but worse

[aelmpvw]

nearly all females in the picture which suggests armistice day to me

[TWR]

To add Togo, Cyffin Square was on a level but raised as you went passed the Scout Buildings up to the school walls.

[Togo]

This is the day I mentioned. We forget that "clothing" did not change as quickly as we have become used to and the early 1900s dress styles would not have changed very much from the late 1800s.

http://thumbsnap.com/i/1VKfydfM.jpg

[weecalf]

Odd that none of the people have patriot hats on or waving flags or have bunting on their side of the street .

[TWR]

That last link Togo, many years ago a crowd of us used to go to Beaumaris for either Frid / Sat night out, this particular night a lad on the Bus called Leslie Baxter decided he wanted to swim from the opposite side of the straights from Bangor Pier, he drowned, at the side of the pier there's a tunnel going into the Cathedral, it is now sea