| Karen sent this photograph, by W. Harold Cox, of Luton & St Albans. She wrote:
I have attached a photograph that has alternately intrigued and amused me ever since I found it amongst piles of junk left in the loft of the first house I bought back in the early 80's. I have just come across it again. The back of the photo which read : PHOTOGRAPH W. HAROLD COX 29 Wellington St., LUTON
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The Wellington Street address would indicate that the photo dates from circa 1914 when Mr Cox would have been 39-40 years old. It's such a strange photo - who is this chap, is it a self portrait? Why has he adopted such an odd pose? What's he telling us? Why wrinkly underpants and socks!?
We'll perhaps never know but maybe somebody in Hertfordshire will recognise him as relative, or was he known as a local wrestler?
Can anyone add anything about the picture or the photographer?
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| Newspapers |
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| Clocks & Watches |
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| Hemel Hempstead |
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| The Kimich's shops were in the new (erected c1905) buildings on the left. |
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| Advert from Herts Advertiser, April 1907 |
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| Post Cards |
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| WW1 |
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| Wounded Soldiers at Napsbury Hospital - Picture from City of Vancouver Archives |
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| We Will Remember Them |
Next year we will all be remembering those who fought, and in some cases died, during the First World War. If you have any post cards with a definite link to the war in Hertfordshire why not let me know - so the people in the pictures can be remembered when we come to the anniversary of the outbreak of the war in August 1914. |
| Hexton Manor |
William Harold Cox was a photographer and picture framer of 90 Castle Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, who published post cards of a number of parishes in Hertfordshire which lie close to Luton. Details are given of five cards so far identified, of Hexton and Lilley, and a publication date of circa 1905 is suggested for all of them.
