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Band At Vesting Day - Wheatley Hill (whea0050)

No 2 Winder To Work Joiners and Fitters
Peter Lee's Three Daughters, Edith, Alice and Maud At Durham

Photograph showing the members of a band walking along a road playing; they are being followed by men carrying a lodge banner; behind the procession a large cage-like structure can be seen; beyond that the side and end of, most likely, a non-conformist church can be seen; the photograph has been identified as Band at Vesting Day, Wheatley Hill; Vesting Day was 1st January 1947, when the coal industry was nationalised

Band At Vesting Day - Wheatley Hill

Photograph showing the members of a band walking along a road playing; they are being followed by men carrying a lodge banner; behind the procession a large cage-like structure can be seen; beyond that the side and end of, most likely, a non-conformist church can be seen; the photograph has been identified as Band at Vesting Day, Wheatley Hill; Vesting Day was 1st January 1947, when the coal industry was nationalised

Date: 1947

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