LNAMAFF 78095
Emergency Feeding Demonstration at Berkeley Castle Glos.
Possible part of a Civil Defence exercise.
Picture shows spectators enjoying the emergency meal cooked by a Gloucestershire team in their T.K.U. (background) and served from a van by the food flying squad.
17th October 1957.
Gerry wrote: "The above paragraph was written on a piece of paper attached to the photograph ... No 1 is my grandmother Sarah Agnes Martin (Turley). She lived in New Road, Blakeney. It is possible that there are others (in the photo) from Blakeney"

1 Sarah Agnes Martin (Turley), 2 Gladys (Minnie) Morse, Blakeney (sister of Agnes Martin No. 1), 3 Mrs Dean (lived off New Road, Blakeney), 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11

Jacqui Howlett added (April 2024): "... I do not think that No 2 is Gladys Minnie Morse. She is my Grandmother and I have a photograph of her and other ladies from Blakeney cooking food in what looks very similar cooking pots to those shown in the background of this photograph ..."

Thanks also to Sandie Young.

Peter Essex added: "... The Lydney Rural District Council Civil Defence Corps register for 1951 to 1959 is indexed ... being held at Gloucestershire Archives. If the pictured event was in 1957 and was part of a civil defence initiative, the register might stimulate putting more names to faces. I've got a reader's ticket but not sure when I can next get to the archives in Alvin Street, Gloucester. You can get a day reader's ticket for a fiver".

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