One of the Fighting Cocks characters was Joe Ledbury, better known as 'Line-prop Joe', who made a living selling line props and bean sticks from this old cart all over the Black country. He lived in a shack at the end of the pub garden. Posing for this photograph are:
(left to right) Bill Baylis, Norbury Hill, Joe Green, Tom Baylis, Joe Baylis, .........., publican Edwin Salt and Joe Ledbury himself.