Description:Members of the congregation of St. Luke’s Mission, Handsacre pictured at a day trip to Milford Common.
The numbered people are identified as: 1) Miss Glennie; 2) Miss Salt; 3) Mrs Harvey Boycott; 4) Mrs George Kent; 5) F? Conway; 6) Aggie Wright; 7) Bertha Wright; 8) Mrs Harry Wright, who lived opposite the Mission Church on Hall Road, Handsacre. One of the boys on the right hand side has a bicycle.
This picture is from an album of photographs taken by Thomas Harvey Boycott (1876-1949) who lived with his widowed mother, Fanny Maria, whose family had lived at Handsacre Hall as farmers, together with his unmarried aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Harvey. Harvey was a Clerk at Lichfield District Probate Court and a skilled amateur photographer. The album was a parting gift from Harvey and his mother to the Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson (1885-1976) who was Curate of Armitage with Pipe Ridware 1909-1913.