IT’S a new year and a new feature for your LookBack page!
Each week a photo from Southport of yesteryear will be chosen and released from dusty attics and albums to be aired on the public stage as our Pic From The Past. So often, images find their way into the LookBack archive but a lack of information to make sense of what can be seen means they soon fall to the back of the pile.
This week, an unusual photograph of Ainsdale sand dunes mocked up as a devastated African village starts the ball rolling.
The image was brought in by an anonymous LookBack correspondent and could certainly fool anyone who wasn’t aware of its purpose as a film set. The only information we have can be garnered from the back of the photograph, where we learn that the scene depicts an ‘African village, after a fire’ and was used for filming by Heatheson Lang & Co in June 1928.
Do you know which film resulted? Call LookBack on 01704-398225 or e-mail visiternews@southportvisiter.co.uk and, if you have any unusual or baffling pictures of Southport’s past send them to Pic From The Past at the usual Visiter address.
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