SOME captivating pictures again this week, with no link other than they were brought in by readers. Is there anyone you know here?

Picture 1. Look at all these faces. This picture comes courtesy of Robert Burkhill, 71, who now lives in Selby. It shows celebrations in Sterne Avenue, York, to mark the coronation of George VI on May 12, 1937.

It looks as if the whole street turned out. A somewhat younger Robert can be seen in the arms of his mother on the far right. One of his six brothers is behind them; he also had one sister.

"If anybody can recognise themselves on it I would be very interested to know who they are," said Mr Burkhill.

Picture 2. The first of two school line-ups. Fred Dyson, 68, from Appleton Roebuck, can be seen on the far left of the back row in this 1949/50 class from York's Park Grove School.

Travelling to a city school from a rural village made it a long day. "We caught the bus at 7.50 in the morning and got the 5.30pm bus back," he remembered. "School dinners were brilliant. The dinner ladies were lifesavers. They'd say 'come on you country lads' and give us second helpings.

"The townies only picked at it. We ate everything."

Among the schoolmates he remembers on this picture are Phillip Craven of the Craven confectionery family (five from the left, second back row) and John Powell who went on to play for York City (same row, two from right).

Trev Audin, who now writes letters to the Press from Canada, is third from right on the back row.

Picture 3. Class number two hails from Huntington School in 1925. Bob Rouse, 84, of Tennent Road, Acomb, brought it in.

He and his twin brother Peter, then aged five, are the little lads in the big caps fourth and fifth from the right on the front row. The teacher in the picture is Miss Cooper. "She was a very nice person," he said.

The headteacher was Mr Wolstenholme.

Mr Rouse's father was a gunner in the First World War.

"We sold up at New Lane, Huntington," he recalled. "We were going to go to Australia. There was a scheme for ex-servicemen: it cost £10.

"We were all set to go but father's mother said she had cancer. She lived for another 20 years."

Mr Rouse and his wife Margaret celebrated their diamond wedding last year.

Picture 4. After a feature about the Yorkshire Printing Works, former employee Eric Tattersfield, 83, of Cornlands Road, Acomb, dropped in one of the works' brochures, dating from 1912. The picture we have selected shows one of the composing rooms.

Pictures 5 and 6. Finally an appeal for help. The team at York Archives would love to know who these men are pictured in the Guildhall following the German air raid in 1942.

The devastation wrought and the scale of the reconstruction needed are astonishing. If you have any information, please contact Chris Titley, The Evening Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York YO1 9YN, chris.titley@ycp.co.uk or ring (01904) 653051 ext 337.

Updated: 09:45 Monday, October 18, 2004