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All Saint's Church, Hindley

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Service of RemembranceParade1945
Service of RemembranceParade1945
Photo: Eric Turner
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Item #: 10515
This photo' taken from across the road from the Plough on Atherton Road. Not really a Walking Day photo'but a Civic Parade after the end of WW2.These are All Saints Boy Scouts with Joe Rimmer in front in Black jacket, first scout in the ranks is James Rothwell. I lived at the newsagents shop from 1946- 1952

Comment by: Eric Turner on 17th April 2009 at 21:32

Credit is due to Mr J Rimmer for sending me this photo. E.T.

Comment by: lanky11 on 18th April 2009 at 20:18

Wow this pic was taken on my birthday and date

Comment by: Graham Rothwell on 7th September 2009 at 20:19

Correction. The first scout in the ranks is not my eldest brother James Rothwell but his younger brother Brian.I believe the front rank of scouts to be from right to left.Norman Hewitt. Ken Jones and Joe Rimmer.

Comment by: Eric Turner on 21st April 2010 at 14:19

Hi Graham, It still looks to me like James Calvin Oates Rothwell, but you should know better than me. I can see Geoffrey Powers further back also. E.T.

Comment by: Graham Rothwell on 19th May 2010 at 16:47

Hello Eric.Can confirm that it is brother James Calvin Oakes. Easy mistake since at that age we all looked alike. By the way I regularly spent my sweet coupons at your shop Regards Graham R.

Comment by: Norman Porter on 6th August 2011 at 14:12

Sorry to disagree, but it is definitely BRIAN Rothwell, James wasn't in the Scouts in 1945, and the scouts in the file behind him are Arthur Prescott,Fred Hurst and Alan Lowe.c64mv

Comment by: Lynn Frost nee Hewitt on 14th February 2012 at 11:26

I believe the first scout on the left behind the chap in the light coloured uniform is my dad Norman Hewitt, who sadly passed away in 1976 aged 47.

Comment by: Norman Porter on 17th July 2015 at 10:55

The scout leaders on the front row are, from left to right: Alan Shaw, Joe Rimmer, Ken Jones and Norman Hewitt

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