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Carnival - Wheatley Hill (whea0096)

Chapel Now Anorak Factory
The Cemetery

Photograph showing the backs of two women kneeling on the ground taking a photograph of a small boy dressed as a pierrot and of a small girl dressed as a shepherdess; the women and children are part of a crowd of people on a field with semi-detached houses on its edge; behind the houses what appears to be a pit-heap can be seen and, behind that, further houses in the far distance; the photograph has been described as Carnival, Wheatley Hill

Carnival - Wheatley Hill

Photograph showing the backs of two women kneeling on the ground taking a photograph of a small boy dressed as a pierrot and of a small girl dressed as a shepherdess; the women and children are part of a crowd of people on a field with semi-detached houses on its edge; behind the houses what appears to be a pit-heap can be seen and, behind that, further houses in the far distance; the photograph has been described as Carnival, Wheatley Hill

Date: 1982

This photo was taken in the feild of the girls school The pit heap in the background is Thornley

Comment added by Colin Woodward on 05/01/2009 15:05:00

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