Different Stages

As you know, the stage in the church hall is currently being used as our office space. But it has had many incarnations over the years. For years, the offering was counted there every Sunday morning, as the people in this photograph are doing. Can anyone identify them?
Also, does anyone know what happened to the portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip that hung there for decades?

Here’s another view of the stage in the church hall from years past. This was a choir party in the 1980s, attended by, if I’m not mistaken: the Smiths, the Bowkers, the Lowsons, the Gillebrands and … well I can’t name them all. Can you?