Darts at Rising Sun      Anne and Dave Butts             January 2017
Anne wrote to us:
This photo was taken at the Rising Sun Box  a few years before the explosion. We believe it is about 1950 but we have no actual date nor can we identify the people.

Please feel free to show it to anyone who may be able to identify them. We would love to know their names. If you publish the photo we may have more luck.

Readers Replied:
Thanks to Brian Palmer, Eric Callaway and Bob Hancock the following names have been suggested. Can you name any more of these gentlemen please? Are you related to them?

Can You Help?
We would love to hear from you if you can identify any of the people in the picture.
Back Row: Harry Clatterbuck, Michael O'Toole, Joseph Taylor, Harry Barnett, unknown, unknown, Mr Kelly, unknown, unknown, Harry Smith (landlord)
Front Row: unknown, unknown, Bill Bayliss (captain of team), unknown, unknown
Oliver Moules Wrote
Bill Bayliss was my great-great-great-uncle, and I know he was the Rising Sun Dart Team captain at one point. The attached photo of him comes from a previous tournament.

Bill was born in Williamstown, in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, and came to Box in the 1920s when his only sister married Tom Franklin (a grandson of William Vivash from your Vivash Family article). He lived at Grove Farm. When he was young he worked as a quarryman, but later worked as a general labourer. He never married or had children and he died in 1975.
Jordan Taylor Wrote
The man on the back row, third from left is my great-grandfather,
Joseph Taylor. Joseph travelled to the Chippenham area from Yorkshire at some time in the 1920s. He married my great-grandmother, Alice Mary Carter, at Chippenham in 1930.

Throughout his life he worked as a building labourer and moved around the Wiltshire before dying in Bristol in 1968.
Please contact us if you have any details about the people and their times in Box, so that we can record their contribution to village life just after World War 2 via [email protected].