A sombre event provides the subject matter for this week's Pic From The Past, as we join a fire brigade funeral procession in 1956.
Lying in state is a 30-year-old fireman tragically killed on a training ground exercise at Southport's Albert Road station.
Reader George Taylor brought the picture in to share and knows a great deal about the circumstances but finds himself stumped by the photographer's location.
George said: "It was Novermber 1956 and a Home Office inspector requested a certain trial to be done, which included extension of the double ladder.
"This particular one was very old and about 90ft long.
"They wanted men up the ladder but didn't appreciate the windy conditions, because when they got above the roof, the wind took the top off the ladder and he came down with it."
Do you know where the procession was heading and where the frame was shot?
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