A historian in Colden Common wants help identifying people in two photographs from First World War

Robin Worman sent in these two evocative photos from the 1914-18 conflict taken in Colden Common.

One looks like a celebration dinner at the long-gone parish hall on Main Road, perhaps for servicemen returning from active service.

The other shows the village children dutifully lining up in Main Road with their parents.

A dinner in Colden Common Parish Hall at the end of World War One

Mr Worman, of Piping Green, Colden Common, is hoping for names of anyone pictured.

No-one in the dinner picture will now be alive but it is just possible that there may now be a centenarian, who, as a toddler, was amongst the children standing in the rain.

Mr Worman thinks both could be late 1918 or 1919 – perhaps they were taken on the same day or maybe the children were lining up on Empire Day?

In the back of the dinner picture are pendants that say ‘well done’ and good luck’.

Perhaps the men in uniform were volunteers being congratulated and bade farewell at the start of the war? The large amount of cut flowers would indicate August or September 1914, perhaps?

The dinner photo was originally a postcard, which Mr Worman says was unusual for a photo of this kind.

Mr Worman can be contacted on 01962 713402.