Anyone like to help try and solve a local history mystery? Very little to go on but we've had some success before!

[YeOldeTrot]

Hello

I'm back and calling on the Mumsnet history sleuths

I posted last month with a little jewellery box and we made some fascinating discoveries but this one is TOUGH

So, we have a photo. This photo was clearly once in a newspaper - possibly North Wilts Herald.

The couple in this photo are receiving bunches of flowers and it's believed that it was their Golden Wedding Anniversary and they were having their pic taken for the paper.

As for the year ... hard to say but clearly late 60s - early ish 70s?

So we've not got much.

Any pointers appreciated

They're all a really good shout @Feralgremlin especially Vale Avenue! Hawthorne also a big possibility.

If you live in Grove you are still part of wantage and would say you were from wantage (maybe!!) but there's Grove and then there's 'old grove' and old grove kinda runs round the perimeter of the town

And old grove is where you'll find the bungalows. Wantage has them but not like grove does.

@IvorTheEngineDriver sadly nothing on the back of the photo. Not a thing!

I am hopeful to find it in the newspaper as that's where it'll have been posted but that's proving a little fruitless right now

I did comment on a post on the faring down site re Mrs king but no takers yet. Mind you the post was quite a few years back! I can't quite identify who Richard king is as there's a few around wantage / faringdon and he himself didn't post the photo - looks like the page insists on doing the main posts

@SoupDragon this is a linden avenue bungalow why ch looks in keeping? It's definitely a 60s built bungalow if not a touch before

It's absolutely in keeping. It needs to be one where the door is proud of the right hand window so that the angle of the photo makes it look almost flat. Like this. Although this one has an extension at the front I think.

Were the other photographs, which you have identified as definitely golden wedding anniversary pictures, in the same style? I have seen them usually posed indoors, maybe with a cake. Although, on a lovely summer day outside makes sense. Maybe it was to show off how many bouquets they had! I'm not positive it is "Mrs King" although the head tilt in both pictures is very similar.

I’ve been thinking about this since yesterday and having had a look at the style of asymmetrical double fronted bungalows in the area, the majority of them have a step back on the “wrong” side for the photograph.

im wondering if it’s been flipped as they often are for publication and it should look like this

this actually helps in my mind as the recessed white portion of the house looks right now, like it makes sense in perspective this way.

My mum was a teacher and used to get loads of bunches of very similar flowers for anniversaries, retirement etc.

It could be Mrs King

Goodness @KThnxBye that's amazing. The picture does indeed look right in your presentation.
And the ring on what is now her right hand (hope I've got that right ) looks more like a piece of jewellery then a wedding ring .

@KThnxBye why are pictures often reversed for publication ?

Wondering if it could be something to do with retirement rather than a wedding anniversary?
I've been trying to work through archives but so far haven't found anything that ties in with this at all, unfortunately.

As a complete aside, I've just posted a question in chat about a mystery I'm trying to solve, if any of you internet detectives might be able to help.

Hairlines are different, I don't think these are photos of the same woman

I don't think its a reversed image either because it shows her wedding rings on her left hand and his breast pocket is over his left breast.

She looks to be wearing a watch on the same hand as the rings which would suggest that is her left hand.

As usual I’m enjoying the mystery but my access to the North Wilts Herald only goes up to 1949. Fingers crossed for a solution.