PHOTOGRAPH: DAGLISH TENNIS CLUB PRIZES PRESENTATION DANCE

Image: The photographs feature the members of the Daglish Tennis Club and friends at a prizes presentation dance night held somewhere in the years between 1936-39 (the War started on 3 September 1939 and it was taken before then). The hall is in Shenton Park, possibly on the corner of Evans Street and Herbert Road. The people in the photographs are all dressed in evening clothes, the men in black tie and the women in long frocks. There is a small boy sitting on the left at the end of the front row. The hall is festooned with streamers hanging from the ceiling. A small table covered with a white cloth with an array of prizes displayed upon it has been placed in front of the group. Three sheets with a list of available names and additional information accompany the photographs. Number/Name: 1. Boy - son of Harry Wheeler, also named Harry; 2. Jack Reynolds; 3. Jim Downie; 4. ---; 5. Bill Hall; 6. Ray Harris; 7. Lyall Richardson; 8. Bill Lonnie; 9. Jack Lovell; 10. Harry Wheeler; 11. Frank Merifield; 12. Bob Boland; 13. Dulcie Downie; 14. Trudy Peters (later Mrs Ray Harris); 15. Joy Hall; 16. Kitty Plunkett; 17. Mrs Fryer (This completes front row except for No. 4 whose name is unknown.) 18. ---; 19. Mrs Lovell, 20. Lewese Lonnie; 21. ---; 22. ---; 23. Mrs MacIntosh; 24. Jack Connolly; 25. Mrs Connolly; 26. Mrs Blencowe; 27. ---; 28. ---; 29. Topsy Merifield; 30. Gertrude Cock; 31. Billie Fielding; 32. Margaret Lovell; 33-38 Not identified; 39. Maurice Levy; 40. Cam MacIntosh; 41-45. Not identified; 46. Enid Langsford; 47. Jack Cock; 48. George Cock; 49. See 31 - have given this body two numbers; 50-54. Not identified; 55. Miss MacIntosh (sister of Cam); 56-59. Not identified; 60 Norm Fielding; 61-62 Not identified; 63. Harold Langsford; 64. ---; 65. Jean ---? (later Mrs Rob Harris); 66. Rob Harris; 67-69 - Not identified; 70. See 48 - have given this body two numbers; 71-75. Not identified; 76. John Kitto. Those marked with ? are uncertain and, of course, any of the others could be wrong; All pretty old or dead by now - 28th December 1983. Later - 24th January 1984 Not all persons in photograph were members of the Daglish Tennis Club; some members took along parties made up of their other friends. It is thought the evening was held in a dance hall in Shenton Park. Gent No. 12, Bob Boland, had a dance band; it is thought he played a saxophone and his wife was the pianist. Note: Only 85_492b has been scanned. Information provided by: Mrs Enid Langsford, 8 Hickey Avenue, Daglish (9381 1630)