• Reference
    Z1190/1
  • Title
    Staff of the Borough Treasurer's Department, Luton. Mr Bunting, the Borough Treasurer, arranged for the photograph to be taken immediately after the declaration of War. It was taken in the private service road behind the Town Hall leading to Manchester Street. The windows of the Sanitary Inspectors' office in the background are blacked out. Back Row Left - Right: Jessica McGeorge (shorthand typist) R.A.Allen (Cashier) W.H.'Bill' Lake (Accountancy Assistant) Jack Newman (Accountancy Assistant) R.C. 'Pank' Stark (Audit Assistant) W.H.P. Davison (Junior Accountancy Assistant) Charles Cullen or Newton (Electricity Rental Clerk) Alf Rignall (Rates Collector) C.G.'Gough' Neal (Accountancy Assistant) A.W. Tibbenham (Accountancy Assistant) Frank Vickers (Audit Assistant)[Killed on active service in Germany March 1946] Aubrey Cripps (Senior Accountancy Assistant) C.G.Anderson (Senior Rates Clerk) Third Row Left - Right: R.Tearle (Superannuation Clerk) Olive Dockrill (Shorthand Typist) Freddie Foster (Insurance Clerk) 'Frankie' Robertshaw (Comptometer operator) Wilf Lowe (Rates Clerk) Ernest Arthur 'Ernie' Kingham (Sundry Debtor's Clerk) [Bomber Pilot, killed over France June 1944] A.A.'Alf' Smith (Audit Clerk) A.E.Ashby (Housing Assistant and Collector) W.Gray (Housing Manager) C.D.Bunyan (Sundry Debtors Clerk) Charles Newton or Cullen (Electricity Rentals Clerk) Gudgeon (Rates Clerk) Unknown Unknown (General Clerk) Edith Wright (Borough Treasurers Secretary) C.P.'Captain' Cook (Collector) Second Row Left - Right: Ron E. Coaters (Electricity Rentals Clerk) S.A.Giddings(General Clerk) A.Altorfer (Accountancy Assistant) Turner (Cashier) F.W. 'Freddie' Morris (Chief Cashier) H.G.Ellcock (Senior Costing Assistant) Tom Shaw (Deputy Borough Treasurer) Fred Bunting (Borough Treasurer) Tom Whalley (Chief Accountancy Assistant) Frank S. Gentle (Senior Electricity Rentals Clerk) E.G. 'Ted' Evinton (Senior Rates Clerk) Alan Birtwell (Electricity Rentals Clerk) Higgins (Collector) Eric Pedder (Electricity Rentals Clerk) Front Row Left - Right: H.C.Bunyan (Electricity Rentals Clerk) Mary Richardson (Shorthand Typist) Jack Hucklesby (Junior Rates Clerk) P.E.B Gosling (Junior Clerk) Mary Smith (Addressograph Machine Operator) Basil Conquest (Junior Clerk) Staff missing from the photograph: R.G. 'Ronnie' Field (Chief Audit Assistant), Harold C. Vincent (Costing Clerk) Photographer William Harold Cox, Luton.
  • Date free text
    September 1939
  • Production date
    From: 1939 To: 1939
  • Exent
    No. of pieces: 1
  • Level of description
    item