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Bill Brown was born in Dundee c1920s. Bill was educated in Dundee before serving in the RAF during WWII. Bill married Sally, a school cook, and they had two children William and Anne. Bill later worked delivering bottles of coca-cola and other drinks around Dundee. After winning the 'pools' (coupon),
Bill and Sally moved to Kendal in the late 1970s. Bill died in 1980.

They were regular playgoers in Dundee and for decades and attended most first nights at Dundee Rep. They were also heavily involved in the two very separate Dundee theatre clubs, The Theatre Club and The Playgoers Club. Their names appear together on cast lists for Playgoers Club amateur playreadings immediately post-war, while they were courting. Their collection of rep programmes begins about 1939 when the core of the company were performing on various Dundee stages prior to the acquisition of Forester’s Halls in Nicoll Street. The collection has only a couple of short chronological gaps, corresponding to the infancy of their two children, Derek and Peter, and continues more or less unbroken through to the 2010s.

The company, known as Betts, dates back to 1933 when Andrew Bett founded a small haulage company delivering bricks to council house building sites in Dundee. His three sons, John, Albert and Stewart, registered the business in 1946 which by then was mainly involved in building council homes and shops for the former Dundee Corporation.

Bert Barnett studied architecture at the Art College, Dundee, from 1964-1970, repeating years two and five of his course. Bert has spent most of his career as an architectural assistant, working with Ric Russell, partner in Nicoll Russell architects, who features in many of the photographs, and with local authorities. Latterly, he worked for an architect's firm in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
'Sleepy People', the subject of the photographs, were a college band made up of architecture students who played at Art College ' hops'.

The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded on 12 February 1853, mainly as a result of an investigation by a committee into the effectiveness of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce and its deteriorating financial position. The committee consisted of four businessmen: David Cowie, W W Kettlewell, D MacKinlay and F F MacKenzie, who became the first president of the Chamber. Membership of the Chamber was restricted to those who owned or managed business and industrial undertakings, and members were encouraged to support or dissent from the Chamber's actions, as they felt appropriate. The Chamber was a democratic advisory group, which actively lobbied for legislative improvements and supported various community projects. The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry was not part of the A & S Henry group.