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I have now trolled through more than 2000 GettyImages photos filtered for the 1920's, and I am not a pennyworth the wiser. As far as I can tell, the people in our photo could have worn the same fashions any time from 1920 to 1926.

With Two's excellent detailed post on the Registration numbers, 1920 is a very strong candidate for the year of the Photo. 1919 becomes the early limit. Are there any vehicles on view later than 1920? Are the fashions 1920 or 1924 (four years often makes a difference). I lean to the earlier...

1920 also starts on a Monday. However we are left with the open registration question. Anyone know how to research that? RobT's news clipping states that the 1920 competition was the fourth. An earlier post in this thread says the competition was held in 1912. So 1912&13; 1919&20, leaving out...

Based on the advert. in post #45, could it have been divided into an adult festival and a children's festival, each lasting about a week? Otherwise, we may again have a dilemma.

Have a look at post #52 for the latest update. Now it looks very like 1924, thanks to Pedrocut. Amazing how this thread was dormant for just over a year, and then, BANG! Crowdsourcing in action.

We had a dilemma. We had an early date limit of 1923 for the plate registration, and no later year until 1926 where the competition dates began on a Monday. And then the actual dates for the 1926 event did not match. The next year for Monday the 10th is definitely too late for the photo. I...

What is your evidence for the 1926 dates please?

Great Hunting: this supports the theory that it was held the same week each year. Correction: See below, post #48, #49 & #50. A great theory destroyed by an even greater fact.

If you look at what is at the top of the Derby poster, it is offering "1000 pounds for the DERBY RESULT." It is quite apparent that the Derby had not yet been run or the result would already have been known. The poster on the cab is advertising the upcoming Derby itself or some betting scheme...

There is an internet app for converting Dates to Days of the Week. Result: May 9-13 1927 is Monday to Friday. As with the Derby, we might assume the annual competition was run on the same week in May each year. May 10-15 is a day longer. Assuming that the Lord's Day would not have been included...

I have seen the 1871 census sheet for the Drovers Arms on Bradford Street, St. Martins. The proprietors were Henry Mitchell, licensed victualler, age 46 and his wife Louisa, age 39. There is no street number given, but it was the first building enumerated after Smithfield Street. This would...

Here is an example of the possibility of enhancing these old photos with Adobe Photoshop or other good image editing programs. The detail is from No. 6 - Corporation Street. In spite of the improvement, unfortunately there is not enough detail in the original for me to make out the date on...

Here is another method used to promote Bird's Custard Powder: prize certificates awarded to young ladies at cookery competitions held at local exhibitions and fairs. Something meant to be kept and treasured, and to remind the young lady of the product as she grew in maturity and family...

I agree it is almost certainly the same man. Putting the pieces together, it looks like he had his own successful business going by the time he was in his mid-20s. Allowing for apprenticeship and work as a journeyman, he does not appear to have wasted any time. And it looks like his own business...

In the last will and testament of my ancestor John Child, Frame Maker and Stamper, dated 1833, he left a number of leasehold "messuages", aka dwellings, to his eight surviving children. At the time such places were often both dwellings and workplaces for cottage industry. These comprised a...