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Temperance Canteen Soup Kitchens - Wheatley Hill (whea0065)

Edith and Margaret Gibson
Front Street

Photograph showing a group of four women in aprons, nine men in shirt sleeves, and one boy, aged approximately fifteen years, also in shirt sleeves;they are grouped in front of a fence with the wall of a brick building beyond; one of the women is holding a knife and a loaf of bread; in the middle of the group are two buckets and a notice propped behind them, reading: Wheatley Hill Canteen Temperance All Workers; it is possible that the canteen is one set up during the strike in 1926

Temperance Canteen Soup Kitchens - Wheatley Hill

Photograph showing a group of four women in aprons, nine men in shirt sleeves, and one boy, aged approximately fifteen years, also in shirt sleeves;they are grouped in front of a fence with the wall of a brick building beyond; one of the women is holding a knife and a loaf of bread; in the middle of the group are two buckets and a notice propped behind them, reading: Wheatley Hill Canteen Temperance All Workers; it is possible that the canteen is one set up during the strike in 1926

Date: 1926


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