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Over 60's Trip To Gretna Green - Wingate (wing0031)

Preparing The Running Track, The Planting
Front Street

Photograph of twenty three elderly people standing round a stone on which there is an anvil on which the following is written: Gretna Green Smithy Original Anvil; behind the group are rough stone walls; an elderly man is dressed as a bridegroom and an elderly woman is dressed as a bride and another elderly man is holding their hands together over the anvil; the group has ben identified as the Over 60s Club in Wingate on outing to Gretna Green

Over 60's Trip To Gretna Green - Wingate

Photograph of twenty three elderly people standing round a stone on which there is an anvil on which the following is written: Gretna Green Smithy Original Anvil; behind the group are rough stone walls; an elderly man is dressed as a bridegroom and an elderly woman is dressed as a bride and another elderly man is holding their hands together over the anvil; the group has ben identified as the Over 60s Club in Wingate on outing to Gretna Green

Date: 1950 - 1959

Back row, 1st left: Hilda Gaskell. Bride and groom: Mr. and Mrs. Dixon. Left of groom: Mrs. Bryson. Behind bride to right: Mrs. Meggy Wilson. First left with bag: Lena Davis. Second left: Tilly Nicholson. First left in chair: possibly Minnie Lake. Second row, 2nd right: Mrs. Oswald.

Comment added by Mrs. Goundry and Mrs. Jackson on 27/03/2009 14:01:00

Bride and groom: Mr. and Mrs. Dixon. Front row,1st right: Mrs. Thubron; 1st left: Mrs. Lake. Top row, 1st left: Mr. Thubron. Third left, next to groom: Mrs. Bryson.

Comment added by Mrs. Lampard and Mr. Robson on 27/03/2009 14:28:00

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