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I suspect they are all women

Found this in a sale. Photographer - May and Co, 279 Wheeler Street, Lozells

I found this photo in a sale. It is of Conway Road School, I guess around 1900 - 1905. Somebody's mom or gran must be here

Definitely a connection Lyn, thanks

Well now I know - probably. This photo is marked on the back: Safety First Supper, 15 October 1955. My Dad, looking much older, without dickie bow, bottom row far left with glasses. The group has got smaller but I bet they are all in the former photo. They must be bus drivers; Dad was still one...

Many thanks Old Boy. The HMS Taku may narrow it down but I know that this is not the fifties - Dad is too young here. There was a previous Taku in WW1 I believe but as you can see from the detail below it is difficult to date the photo. Being a photo in a photo, the resolution and focus are...

My Dad was 42 in April 1939

That is a solution worth considering farmerdave; thanks

It definitly says Reunion Dinner. I used Photoshop to fiddle with the photo and that can bee seen clearly as it is in fairly large letters. unfortunatly the other text is to small and of low resolution; when enlarged it is just distorted blotches.

I'm bit doubtful about a works do. Dad was a bus driver at the Hockley Brook depot. If it was a works do I would have thought there would be a greater age range and also women present. I don't think that there were women drivers in the thirties but I think there were probably women conductors. I...

I see the Springtime clue now Rowan. I don't think the man in the bow tie is in charge though - that's my dad

Not school; St Matthias's didn't have those and not a sports club

Here he is in uniform

I think that HMS Taku is just a coincidence. My Dad is the one with the dickie bow

Can anyone help with this photo? It was taken by a Handsworth photographer - Taylor's Press Service, 366 Soho Road. I have fiddled with the exposure and can see that the menus on the table read 'Reunion Dinner'; nothing else is clear enough to identify. My Dad is in the photo and he was in the...

Already onto it maypole, thanks

Many thanks Viv things are beginning to make sese. Yes he was in the Royal Engineers; 30 Airline Section 1st Army Signals.

Second question: can anyone help please? What was (motor) airline section?

Next question: can anyone explain what the 30 (motor) airline section might be? Related to Royal Engineers, Signals Company. Many thanks (ps for maypolebazz the original replies seem to have returned)

Many thanks maypolebaz; you did post a reply and I posted another reply to thank you. Also I had a job in the original post uploaded the image - it kept uploaded twice. I finally got it to upload only once and then a little later it appeared twice. All I can think is that some maintenance has...