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Vesting Day - Wheatley Hill (whea0035)

Jackie Craggs (Pumpman) At Colliery
Girls School, Teacher Miss Hope

Photograph of six men, wearing overcoats and hats, standing in front of a brick wall, with the backs of the heads of children in front of them;the photograph has been described as Vesting Day, Wheatley Hill; Vesting Day was 1st January 1947 the day the coal industry was nationalised

Vesting Day - Wheatley Hill

Photograph of six men, wearing overcoats and hats, standing in front of a brick wall, with the backs of the heads of children in front of them;the photograph has been described as Vesting Day, Wheatley Hill; Vesting Day was 1st January 1947 the day the coal industry was nationalised

Date: 1947


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