A group of twenty-four regulars from the Wild Ox, Norton Road, Stockton pose for a photograph before setting off for a pleasure party. Destination unknown.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A group of twenty-four regulars from the Wild Ox, Norton Road, Stockton pose for a photograph before setting off for a pleasure party. Destination unknown.
I think the Trilby, took over as a ‘manager-status’ clothing item, from the older ‘Bowler’, which can certainly be seen on some of the older ‘groups of working-men’ photographs, featured in this archive.
Hat shops must have been a really good-business back then!
I wonder at what stage you went from flat cap to trilby?
I think it was a personal choice because they both prevail today, some thought they were the bee-knees with a trilby, especially the old gaffers.
Anon. I was just about to say about the old gaffers. At HW’s the managers there such as Johnnie Franklin, Jack Shaw , Daglish and Bell in charge of the machine shop at the Boro all wore trilby’s. Mind, my 1st foreman in the joiners shop had a flat cap as well as his chargehand Alec Moody who later became foreman. I think that he wore a cap because he was very embarrassed of his bald head..
Yes Bob, a few more were Lennie Allen, Maynard (Whipper) Wilson, Freddie Lyle, Billy Price & Frank Holliday.