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Welfare Carnival Day - South Hetton (sout0073)

Welfare Show
Women's Institute Committee

Photograph of a group of ten children, aged between approximately five and nine years, standing in a field in fancy dress with indistinct figures behind them; in the far distance a group of houses can be seen; one boy is dressed as a conventional business man in Bowler hat and with umbrella, but the costume of the other children is somewhat obscure; the occasion has been identified as South Hetton Welfare Carnival Day

Welfare Carnival Day - South Hetton

Photograph of a group of ten children, aged between approximately five and nine years, standing in a field in fancy dress with indistinct figures behind them; in the far distance a group of houses can be seen; one boy is dressed as a conventional business man in Bowler hat and with umbrella, but the costume of the other children is somewhat obscure; the occasion has been identified as South Hetton Welfare Carnival Day

Date: 1964


The building on the left at the back of the picture is Conishead Terrace. The child at the front of the picture, on one knee, is Eve Dickinson. The child with the blackened face is Karen Booth.

Comment added by Sandra Heckles on 27/03/2009 13:12:00

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