EVERY now and then I come across an old photograph that is rather puzzling.
Understood to have been taken locally, this picture shows grim-faced men with poles on top of which are mounted models of ships.
The young boy is holding a placard that, with the use of a magnifying glass, appears to contain the words stand and fall.
It would seem possible the message was ‘stand or fall’, perhaps indicating that this was a protest by shipyard employees belonging to a trade association.
The photograph must go back 100 years or so.
Does any reader have a clue as to what the occasion may have been?
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