Colliery Band Outside Station Hotel, Armistice Day - Shotton (shot0080)

Colliery Band Outside Station Hotel, Armistice Day - Shotton

Photograph of approximately fifteen boys wearing peaked caps and carrying musical instruments, accompanied by six men in uniform, also carrying musical instruments; the group is standing outside a public house, identified as the Station Hotel, Shotton; three children and a man in the doorway of the public house are watching the group; the group is described as Shotton Colliery Band, but its members seem to be wearing the same uniforms as the members of the band in shot0077, 78, 79,; the photograph has been identified as having been taken on Armistice Day 1942, an event unknown to history, so it may be that the occasion for the photograph was Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945; the hypothesis that the photograph was taken during the era of the Second World War is borne out by the fact that most of the members of the band are children

Date: 1940 - 1949