These gardeners obviously had green fingers.

Their skill with the soil - with possibly a little help from the weather - produced a bumper harvest.

They are all members of the East Oxford Liberal Club.

The pictures were sent in by Lynda Millin, of Weymouth, Dorset, who writes: "They passed into my possession after the death of my aunt, Emmie Wakefield, who lived in Essex Street from 1918 until her death last year."

The picture of members outside the club, above, was taken in 1944.

Mrs Millin can identify only two of the nine men in that photograph - the two on the extreme right, Alfred Wakefield, her grandfather, and Frederick Trafford.

She tells me: "Alfred was a local rent collector and bailiff and Mr Trafford owned a barber's shop in, I think, Chester Street, off Iffley Road.

"I believe the Liberal Club held a flower and vegetable show in August every year.

"I think my grandfather was the secretary, but I'm not sure if that was of the club or just the show committee. He died in 1947."

Mrs Millin knows the names of all five men in the picture taken inside the club, below, in 1945.

They are, left to right, Mr Bateson, Alfred Wakefield, Mr Johnson, Alf (?) Pipkin, the club president, and Mr H Parker.

Can anyone supply the seven missing names from the exterior picture?