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Mothers Club With Wilfred Pickles - Shotton (shot0158)

Shotton Colliery
The Colliery Works

Photograph of approximately thirty five women surrounding Wilfred Pickles, a well-known broadcaster of the middle of the twentieth century, who prided himself on being Northern and being able to get on well with ordinary people; they are all, including Mr. Pickles, wearing overcoats; he is described as being at The Mothers' Club in Shotton

Mothers Club With Wilfred Pickles - Shotton

Photograph of approximately thirty five women surrounding Wilfred Pickles, a well-known broadcaster of the middle of the twentieth century, who prided himself on being Northern and being able to get on well with ordinary people; they are all, including Mr. Pickles, wearing overcoats; he is described as being at The Mothers' Club in Shotton

Date: 1950 - 1959


Front row, left to right: Edna Short; Elsie Hayward; unidentified; Rita Howe. Middle row, left to right: unidentified; unidentified; Annie Saint; Sally Smith; Wilfred Pickles; Jimmy Williams; Velda Collison; unidentified. Back row, left to right: unidentified; unidentified; Millie Cooper; Doris Hartle; Bella Wilkes; Mrs. Surtees; Lydia Hughes; unidentified; unidentified.

Comment added by Minnie Stout on 27/03/2009 12:44:00

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