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Ladies' Outing, 1950s or late 1940s

In 2011 Fay Twydell sent this photo taken outside the Magnet pub of a group of ladies who have either returned from or are about to set off on an outing. They are all wrapped up well, apart from the young girl at front left.

Several people have been identified, Contributors has all the detail and a summary follows the photo. Some ladies' names have been suggested but it is not clear where they are in the photo: see the list below, perhaps you can help place them.

There are three rows noted left to right
Back: 7 people
Middle: 6 plus lady turned sideways and two ladies, one peeking over shoulder of a standing lady
Front: girl plus 10 ladies

Back: 1?, 2 Mrs COX, 3?, 4?, 5?, 6 Mrs BUTLER, 7?
Middle: 1 Mrs KENNEDY, 2 Mrs KENNEDY's daughter, 3 Maud WHEELER, 4 Mrs JENNINGS, 5?, 6?, 7?, 8?, 9?
Front: 1 Hilda Edith WHEELER, 2 Fay's Aunt Pat, 3?, 4?, 5?, 6?, 7 Mrs CLARK, 8?, 9 Clara HAMLIN, 10?, 11?

Can you spot any of these 17 people?

GARDNER: Betty, Mrs and one other
JENNINGS: three in addition to Mrs JENNINGS
OSBORNE: Mrs Rose, Mrs Joan
TEW: Eileen, Maud
WEST: Annie, Mrs
WHEELER: Dot (Dorothy), Maud, Nancy, Pat

Please get in touch if you can help.

Contributors

Fay's aunt has provided some names but Fay warns 'I'm not sure what she means by rows'!

Back row, left to right: Mrs Rose Osborne, Mrs Joan Osborne, Mrs West, ?, ?, Maud Tew, Eileen Tew, several ?, Annie West, ? Jennings, ? Jennings, ? Jennings, ? Jennings, Mrs Gardner, Betty Gardner, ? Gardner
Front row, left to right: ?, Hilda Wheeler, Nancy Wheeler, Mrs Clark, Maud Wheeler, Dot (Dorothy) Wheeler, ?, Mrs Jennings
The man standing by is Mr Butler, his wife Mrs Butler is in the back row wearing a hat

Fay adds: my grandmother Maud Wheeler is the small lady in the middle row just below the lady who is second left in the very back row; aunt Pat: 2nd left front row. At the time the photo was taken the Magnet was managed by Mrs Clark (centre front). (2011)

Jean Dunsdon: my gran Clara Hamlin is in the front row 3rd from right, she is wearing a floral dress under a dark coat and a hat. This was her second marriage, she was married to Edward Langley first, her maiden name was Wiltshire.

John Jennings: the lady in the middle row with her blouse tuck outside her coat is my mother Mrs Jennings. The lady standing in front of the coach middle row is Mrs Kennedy and beside her is her daughter, second from left in the back row is Mrs Cox. hope these names help. I was born at 35 the Ham in 1938, my father was known as Ted Jennings and my sister Lily.

Patsy Langley: Clara Hamlin was first married to my dad's Uncle Ted (Edward) Langley. My dad knew her very well as 'Aunt Clara' and she remained 'Aunt Clara' following her second marriage. (May 2012)

Bob Smith: my mum is the girl on the left of the photo, Hilda Edith Wheeler, now Smith, and has several sisters in the photo (Pat, Nance, Maud and Dot) as well as her mother Maud Wheeler. (May 2026)

Please get in touch if you can add any further names. If you happen to know the maiden name of a married lady or the forename of any Mrs XXX that will help! Thank you.

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The Magnet was at 152 High Street and closed around 1955 according to Gillian Clegg's Brentford and Chiswick Pubs.

Published September 2011; last updated May 2026