Fishing - a photo on Flickriver

Fishing

A photograph from the negatives of the Late Keith Coles showing two boys at an unknown location fishing from what looks like a concrete pipe outlet. The date of the 120 size negatives in the collection are all from about 1956 to around 1959 but unfortunately there is no information on any of the sleeves in which the negatives are stored. Each batch of negatives are stored in old tobacco tins with a vague one-line description stuck on the outside. Inevitably the contents of many of the tins have become mixed up and a lot of detective work is sometimes necessary; this one was in a tin labelled simply "People".

The boys I guess are aged 11, 12 perhaps, and wearing what look like jeans when boys of their age in the late 1950s would be more likely to be in short trousers. I would have thought that it is summer with quite a high sun and short shadows and the boy in the short-sleeved shirt would seem to confirm this, it is thought he could be the son of the photographer.

The other lad is wearing a scout-cap, or perhaps a school cap. He's clearly just been in the water as his wellington boots are wet nearly to the top.

Could the location be somewhere on the River Severn in the Ironbridge area?

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Taken on: January 1, 1959

Tags:

Keith Coles

photographer

boys

fishing

river

jeans

shoes

scout cap

fishing rod

checked shirt

concrete

wading

unknown location

120 film « less

Sets appears in: • 1950s Assorted • Other Photographers

Groups appears in: • 1950s Britain (Original '50s images only)

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