Or maybe it should be, “Spot the Ball”, with all the trophies ! Can you can recall the days of the Pools companies, Littlewoods, Zetters and Vernons ? With thanks to, retired Chief Superintendent Royston SCOTT and Jayne POVALL SMITH, daughter of Peter SMITH, here are two photographs from the early 1950’s outside …
This is a biography of Percy Barnes COPP, who was one of Dorset’s finest policeman, as told by his grandson John COPP, with some help from the Dorset Echo and information from some other historical sites. I never knew my grandfather, he died a month before I was born in …
Written on the rear of this photograph are the words ” Taken in the back of Poole Gasworks after a Police Service at Skinner Street Congregational Church about 1930 or 1931. ” …
This is a photograph printed on page 33 of “Bobbies On The Beat” 150 years of Dorset Police by Melvin HANN. I apologies, as it is not a very clear photo, just a copy ! It is the days of black and white photography, and a time when in the summer, …