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Last Child Welfare Party Held In Miners Institute - Shotton (shot0040)

Four Pit Lads
Road Into Haswell From Shotton

Photograph of approximately twenty women dressed in frocks, hats and aprons, standing round eight women who are sitting in a semi-circle with six children, wearing party hats, a box of apples and a basket in which there are presents; the wall, which appears to be constructed of wood or corrugated iron, has balloons on it; the party is described as The Last Child Welfare Party Held In The Miners' Institute, Shotton Colliery

Last Child Welfare Party Held In Miners Institute - Shotton

Photograph of approximately twenty women dressed in frocks, hats and aprons, standing round eight women who are sitting in a semi-circle with six children, wearing party hats, a box of apples and a basket in which there are presents; the wall, which appears to be constructed of wood or corrugated iron, has balloons on it; the party is described as The Last Child Welfare Party Held In The Miners' Institute, Shotton Colliery

Date: 1950 - 1959

The woman, whose head can be seen behind the baby on the left of the picture, and whose arm is reaching past the baby, is Mrs. Stepenson. The woman next to her, holding two apples, is Mrs, Richardson.

Comment added by Mr. and Mrs. Willis on 27/03/2009 11:46:00

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