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Celebration - Blackhall (blac0147)

Caricature of Entertainers
Blackhall Colliery Band

Photograph of six women sitting behind a trestle table on which there are cake stands, crockery, and a large iced cake of two layers; behind the women are approximately thirty people, some of whom are holding infants; a number of the adults are wearing paper hats; behind the group on a wooden wall are Union Jacks and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; it is, therefore, likely that the occasion for the celebration is the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the location of the celebration has been identified as Blackhall

Celebration - Blackhall

Photograph of six women sitting behind a trestle table on which there are cake stands, crockery, and a large iced cake of two layers; behind the women are approximately thirty people, some of whom are holding infants; a number of the adults are wearing paper hats; behind the group on a wooden wall are Union Jacks and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; it is, therefore, likely that the occasion for the celebration is the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the location of the celebration has been identified as Blackhall

Date: 1953

This is the Hut belonging to the Womens section of the British Legion, it used to stand on the old granary site near the Allotments it was moved to its present site after 1950

Comment added by R. Will on 28/08/2008 17:39:00

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