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Girls Brigade - Shotton (shot0053)

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Presentation At Miners Institute For Northern Amateur Billiards League

Photograph of eight girls, aged approximately fourteen years, in uniform, posed in a line in front of a panelled wall in an unidentified building; they wear medals, chevrons denoting status, and pointed hats; the girl at the front of the row is wearing an elaborate hat and an elaborate lanyard and is presumably the leader of the group; they have been identified as members of Shotton Colliery Girls' Brigade, 1950s

Girls Brigade - Shotton

Photograph of eight girls, aged approximately fourteen years, in uniform, posed in a line in front of a panelled wall in an unidentified building; they wear medals, chevrons denoting status, and pointed hats; the girl at the front of the row is wearing an elaborate hat and an elaborate lanyard and is presumably the leader of the group; they have been identified as members of Shotton Colliery Girls' Brigade, 1950s

Date: 1950 - 1959


The unidentified building is one of the rooms at the back of the church hall

Comment added by Anonymous on 26/09/2008 15:46:00

The Shotton Girls' Brigade started in 1942 or 1943, with eight girls. They met in St. Saviour's church hall.

Comment added by Mrs. Evans on 27/03/2009 12:04:00

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