TEW Posted 30 January , 2022 Share Posted 30 January , 2022 I was about to ask about the female front & centre. I think she's holding her hands behind her back. TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin DavidOwen Posted 30 January , 2022 Admin Share Posted 30 January , 2022 The registration looks to me like U-61-17; not sure of the 1 following the 6, are there any vintage car sites that might assist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 January , 2022 Share Posted 30 January , 2022 2 hours ago, Michelle Young said: No I meant the one In Belfast. I beg your pardon! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 30 January , 2022 Share Posted 30 January , 2022 1 hour ago, TEW said: I was about to ask about the female front & centre. I think she's holding her hands behind her back. TEW I think you can see her right arm (just) but the left arm looks to be missing below the sleeve to me. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 30 January , 2022 Admin Share Posted 30 January , 2022 35 minutes ago, seaJane said: I beg your pardon! 🙂 Sorry, wasn’t very clear…….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Pegum Posted 31 January , 2022 Share Posted 31 January , 2022 On 29/01/2022 at 19:18, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: Re:-spacing. Hard to tell from this scan, a better one is required really. I think it is definitely IJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 31 January , 2022 Share Posted 31 January , 2022 (edited) The IJ registration number prefix (County Down) as previously mentioned, was in use from December 1903 to April 1930. Mike. Edited 31 January , 2022 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofatfortakeoff Posted 25 May , 2022 Share Posted 25 May , 2022 Man theres so.e great detective work on these pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmeg Posted 6 June , 2022 Share Posted 6 June , 2022 (edited) I keep missing the ball, I too was thinking that car was the best bet 😀 Young lady appears to quite definitely have elbows so hands behind back, would surely be unlikely for her to be in a military hospital as a patient anyway. She is not in nursing uniform... but her face DOES bear a resemblance to me anyway to Winifred er Letts was it? Subject of another thread? Who has been pictured in that thread wearing a blouse with a similar collar? Winifred seems to have been from Ireland if I remember that thread correctly, I think Dublin was mentioned? Thought strikes me that the two gentlemen far right are very dark skinned and don't know if that offers any clues? Edited 6 June , 2022 by Madmeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 7 June , 2022 Share Posted 7 June , 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, Madmeg said: I keep missing the ball, I too was thinking that car was the best bet 😀 Young lady appears to quite definitely have elbows so hands behind back, would surely be unlikely for her to be in a military hospital as a patient anyway. She is not in nursing uniform... but her face DOES bear a resemblance to me anyway to Winifred er Letts was it? Subject of another thread? Who has been pictured in that thread wearing a blouse with a similar collar? Winifred seems to have been from Ireland if I remember that thread correctly, I think Dublin was mentioned? Thought strikes me that the two gentlemen far right are very dark skinned and don't know if that offers any clues? Her uniform is very reminiscent of the Almeric Paget Masseuses (overall type with deep pocket and button fastened waist belt to nip it in) except that it’s clearly not white. I agree she has her hands behind her back. The one cap badge that I can make out appears to be the West Yorkshire Regiment. Interestingly there was apparently a “UVF Limbless Hospital” in Belfast, presumably run under the auspices or funding of the Ulster Volunteer Force. The photo is from 1913. See: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Ulster-Volunteer-Hospitals-and-Ulster-Volunteer-Medical-and-Nursing-Corps-1460189787547459/ NB. Apparently (according to a letterhead listing all the UVF hospitals) the UVF Limbless and Orthapaedic Hospital was located in University Road, Belfast. Details of that establishment (which was within the grounds of Queen’s university) can be seen here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/SpecialCollections/DigitalResources/Exhibitions/QueensandWorldWarOne/ Edited 7 June , 2022 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmeg Posted 7 June , 2022 Share Posted 7 June , 2022 Maybe I'm imagining it but the dark skinned chap in the first picture at the back, could he be the same chap at the front row of the op post? And there is a chap at the back in the third picture who has a resemblance to one in op pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 7 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 7 June , 2022 8 hours ago, FROGSMILE said: the UVF Limbless and Orthapaedic Hospital was located in University Road, Belfast. I have scoured the streets of Belfast using Google maps looking for the striped brickwork. ie 4 rows of blue and 4 rows of red. Nothing has showed up as yet. A lot of the Queens University buildings on University road are still there but many frontages have hoarding over the fronts due to restoration work of some sort. The architecture fits overall for this age but a side door such as this is not to be found, by me. Even though it is a big side door with steps. It could be a front door, though I doubt that. Smaller Belfast hospitals have not been fruitful. The search continues...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 7 June , 2022 Share Posted 7 June , 2022 1 minute ago, Bob Davies said: I have scoured the streets of Belfast using Google maps looking for the striped brickwork. ie 4 rows of blue and 4 rows of red. Nothing has showed up as yet. A lot of the Queens University buildings on University road are still there but many frontages have hoarding over the fronts due to restoration work of some sort. The architecture fits overall for this age but a side door such as this is not to be found, by me. Even though it is a big side door with steps. It could be a front door, though I doubt that. Smaller Belfast hospitals have not been fruitful. The search continues...... Yes I don’t think that it can be the Queen’s University site unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 8 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 8 June , 2022 (edited) On 21/01/2022 at 18:13, Sue S said: I am bringing up the original picture again. On the left is a very tall building, what is it I ask myself?The buildings to the right of that I think are another very large place, not a row of terraced houses. Is it a barracks? Back to the cap badges @FROGSMILE There are hundreds of thousands of men being wounded who are then are returned to the UK for treatment/convalescence etc. The normal hospital system cannot cope so other buildings/grand houses are being used. I suppose it does not matter where you as a casualty are sent so long as you are getting treatment, some in specialised hospitals, therefore cap badge /regiment/unit does not come into the equasion, or does it? For example, Yorkshire regiments with the Devons in a hospital in Scotland? I am thinking out loud here as it were so ignore my ramblings by all means. The soldier to the left of the nurse who is smoking and the soldier directly behind the nurse both have a badge of some sort on their left lapels, ideas anyone? Edited 8 June , 2022 by Bob Davies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 10 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 10 June , 2022 On 30/01/2022 at 02:48, NigelS said: To my eye not terraced houses but barracks or large wards? Possibly one of the older, long established military hospitals rather than a general hospital; some of the architectural features of the background buildings are similar to those of some parts of the extensive Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot which had multiple wings, but I'm hesitant to suggest that this might be the location. NigelS I agree with your thoughts on this NigelS. After a lot of looking at pictures on the net I am sure that the location is part of a large hospital. So many have been demolished over the years and the pictures remaining only show the fronts of the buildings even from aerial photos. Also from further reading it seems that injured men were when possible sent to their local area hospitals or convalescent homes. I have not been able to find any more about Edgar Pick, Staffs Yeomanry but he is listed on fold 3. as an amputee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 10 June , 2022 Share Posted 10 June , 2022 (edited) I wonder if the OP @Sue S has had a chance to re-scan the postcard at a high resolution. I must admit, I'm not convinced the letters on the car number plate are IJ. All letters should be the same height, but I'm seeing the 'J' as being longer than the 'I'. It could be an U with dirt, or a blemish on the photo just on the bend of the letter U. Edited 10 June , 2022 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 11 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 11 June , 2022 17 hours ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: I must admit, I'm not convinced the letters on the car number plate are IJ. All letters should be the same height, but I'm seeing the 'J' as being longer than the 'I'. It could be an U with dirt, or a blemish on the photo just on the bend of the letter U. Me too. I think it is a U, no matter how I adjust the picture in picassa I still see the letter U. I cannot make it a letter H, which was my other thought. Here is a link to another picture of a car outside a Leeds hospital, 2nd Northern General Hospital. It looks to have the same start letter as the one in question. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/haunted-history-former-leeds-war-hospital-595173 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 11 June , 2022 Share Posted 11 June , 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Bob Davies said: Me too. I think it is a U, no matter how I adjust the picture in picassa I still see the letter U. I cannot make it a letter H, which was my other thought. Here is a link to another picture of a car outside a Leeds hospital, 2nd Northern General Hospital. It looks to have the same start letter as the one in question. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/haunted-history-former-leeds-war-hospital-595173 I think you might be on to something Bob. Beckett Park, Leeds, site of No.2 Northern General hospital. "At its height, the pioneering hospital was highly regarded for its work in orthopaedics, dentistry and plastic surgery as surgeons experimented on the vast range of challenging war wounds that were presented to them. Advances were made in artificial limb technology, and races were held in the grounds between men who had lost legs." Edit: I see some Leeds venues have been discussed on page 1, but has anybody studied any old photos of them? Edited 11 June , 2022 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 11 June , 2022 Share Posted 11 June , 2022 (edited) Now then now then now then... Wikipedia pic of Beckett Park (as previously mentioned by Michelle: Note the buildings on the right. Red brick, sort of mock Georgian/palladian, gabled roof and distinctive arches and chimney stacks: The original photo, cropped, to show buildings in distance beyond car: Edited 11 June , 2022 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 11 June , 2022 Share Posted 11 June , 2022 And this nails it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 11 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 11 June , 2022 51 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: Now then now then now then... Wikipedia pic of Beckett Park (as previously mentioned by Michelle: Dai Bach y Sowldiwr, I think you have it there. It is a very close fit. Thanks for the pictures a great bit of working out. Courtesy of the Long Long Trail; 2nd Northern General. A TF General Hospital in Leeds. 60 officers and 2039 other ranks. – included a 126 bed unit for limbless men domiciled in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. I have to find Edgar Pick Staffs Yeomanry on Ancestry again to see if there is an address for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 11 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 11 June , 2022 50 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: The ramp has been added to enable access and green doors have replaced windows, apart from that, very very close and I believe a cigar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 11 June , 2022 Share Posted 11 June , 2022 (edited) Thanks Bob. The windows on the nearest gable end of the building on the left are an exact match, same number, same position and same number of panes, with the same keystone above each one. The roofline of this gable is different I acknowledge, but I guess it's been re-done sometime in the last 100 years. It's the same car too... Oh no, it's a Jag... These are the only 3 Edgar Picks born in England from 1873 to 1906: Births Mar 1873 (>99%) PICK Edgar Tom Southwell 7b 325 Births Mar 1876 (>99%) PICK Edgar Ingram Ecclesall B. 9c 335 Births Jun 1891 (>99%) Pick Edgar Bourn 7a 383 Edited 11 June , 2022 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Bob Davies Posted 11 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 11 June , 2022 7 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: These are the only 3 Edgar Picks born in England from 1873 to 1906: I believe this is our man; courtesy fold 3. Witham on hill, Bourne is in Lincolnshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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