A makeshift works music group called the Midco Jazz Band. The instrument line up looks like drums, mandolin type banjo, Bugle and maybe a stringed dulcimer type thing or a bass type thing. In what way they played jazz is open to interpretation. A Skiffle type rendition of old British songs maybe. The image looks like it is set in maybe the late forties or maybe the very early sixties but most likely the fifties.

Midco was a foundry and steam specialities works making valves and pressure gauges on Colliery Road in the Meadows, Nottingham run by Tom Middleton. Founded in the late 1920’s it was later taken over in the late 1960’s.

from the book
The Meadows Remembered by David McVay published in 2000