Town clerk Arthur Usher and the Mayor

AN OLD Echo archive showing a group of people in their finery, rosettes and chains of office has seen a number of people get in touch to identify a few faces.

Audrie Smallman, 80, rang after she spotted Loughborough Mayor Arnold Wilde and his wife Freda, who were family friends. She thought the picture would have been taken around 1951

Audrie added that Coun Wilde had a grocers’ shop at the top of Sparrow Hill opposite Gadd & Cox and his bother Leonard Wilde had a chemist in Baxter gate next door to Arnolds’ the picture framers.

She added that later on Coun Wilde became the manger of a Leicester branch of the Simpkin & James grocery business.

Peter Foster also contacted us to identify Coun Wilde, but also his father-in-law Arthur Usher.

Peter e-mailed saying: “The picture seems to be a ball and the gentleman third from the left on the back row is my wife’s father Arthur Usher,who was the town clerk, accompanied by his wife on his right.

“I have no knowledge as to the event but I suspect it was in 1950/51. I do not recognise any other people, but am intrigued by the rosettes worn by the younger men.”

• Can you help any further?

Please contact Andy Rush at Looking Back on 01509 635 802. E-mail andy. rush@reachplc.com

■ Barrow-upon-Soar’s Sue Hobbs has sent in this copy of an old Echo from 1947 in the hope that someone may have the original picture, or even know anybody on it.