The photographer is our old friend Charles Ireland of
Chorlton*.
Now the obvious assumption would be that they are something to do with the Town Hall.
Perhaps a group of councillors. But I don't recognise the room from the Town Hall. They could predate the opening of the building in the 1870s but then Charles would have been too young to take the picture. So perhaps it was his father.
Of course the link with the Town Hall maybe an false trail. They could equally be another group of people. One suggestion is that in the group is Ben Brierley, the Lancashire poet and hand loom weaver, and another is Edwin Waugh who was also a poet, writer and described the fast disappearing traditional way of life in Lancashire.
So all a bit of a mystery and one that should be fun to solve. I will therefore leave it up open. It has started an interesting debate at MINERAncestry in miscellaneous and PHOTO ID where the picture was first posted.
*http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/it-started-with-picture-and-became.html?showComment=1352977908706#c7932988309155816373
Now the obvious assumption would be that they are something to do with the Town Hall.
Perhaps a group of councillors. But I don't recognise the room from the Town Hall. They could predate the opening of the building in the 1870s but then Charles would have been too young to take the picture. So perhaps it was his father.
So all a bit of a mystery and one that should be fun to solve. I will therefore leave it up open. It has started an interesting debate at MINERAncestry in miscellaneous and PHOTO ID where the picture was first posted.
*http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/it-started-with-picture-and-became.html?showComment=1352977908706#c7932988309155816373
Picture; from Wales
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