Local to me

[Ron Pier]

This picture was taken in 'Holdenhurst Village' near Bournemouth Dorset (It was in Hampshire back then). Near where I live. Can anyone help date it from the census numbers please. Ron

[Lynn Eades]

I can't date them Ron, but the left one is built by Thornycroft and the right one by Wolseley. (thanks to Nigel Watson's excellent books)

[Michael R.]

Could the other indicators suggest roughly the spring of 1940 or possibly 1941?

[Ron Pier]

Thanks for the replies. It looks like a smattering of snow to me and no leaves on that first tree, So maybe the winter of 40-41? Ron

[Lynn Eades]

Some of the early U.Cs were lost at Dunkirk. those U.C. T numbers are not as high as these two numbers, but I think these carriers would have been produced shortly after. The Contracts were T7807 and T7808. One of them is from the first 6 of its contract. If Nigel Watson is watching he could pin the dates pretty close. It is possible the contracts were let on the same day, to the two different companies. It was "all hands to the pumps" at that stage because "Britain was drowning"
My wild stab without looking at Dunkirk carrier photos, is that these carriers rolled off the production line about August or September 1940.

[Ron Pier]

Thanks Lynn. Apparently the book from where the picture was taken quotes it as "Holdenhurst Farmhouse 1940" .......So spot on.

Cheers Ron