UPDATED: A grand dinner – photographs from the Worthing Herald's archives
A LARGE number of people are gathered for what looks like a gala dinner.
Daffodils on the table suggest the event took place during Spring.
This photograph was published in the Worthing Herald today (Thursday, September 25), and prompted reader Alan Grove to come in for a closer look.
Mr Grove, 87, thought the couple sitting on the end of the table in the foreground looked very much like him and his wife Pat.
However, a second call to the Herald has revealed the couple in question are not the Groves but Jean and Ray Willis.
Mrs Willis recognised the event immediately as the 21st birthday party of former Worthing mayor Brian Lynn.
The event took place in April 1958 at the Richmond Rooms in Worthing.
Mrs Willis, was sitting opposite her husband and next to her father, Gordon Smith.
Her mother Elsie Smith was turning towards the camera and her face is blurred.
Mrs Willis is a former Sandhurst School pupil, who lived in Worthing throughout the Second World War.
She was 26-years-old when the photograph was taken.
Click on the view gallery link to see larger versions of the photographs.
Telephone Sarah Booker on 01903 282356 or email: sarah.booker@worthingherald.co.uk and quote the picture reference numbers under each image if you have the answer.
This picture were found among the thousands of photographs in the Herald archive which cannot be identified, but hopefully readers will be able to reveal the true story.
Keep an eye on the Looking Back section of this website for more photographs from Worthing past, and the stories revealed by Herald readers.
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