Cotton Industry float, Trade Procession, 1922 Preston Guild, Preston

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iBase ID

235322

Reference identifier

NST20120420006

Title

Cotton Industry float, Trade Procession, 1922 Preston Guild, Preston

Place

Preston

General notes

This image was loaned by Mrs M Sumner of the Lea Women's Institute in Preston in April 2012. Its shows a float for the cotton industry in the 1922 Preston Guild celebrations. Mrs Sumner's mother Annie Tipping was on the float dressed as a fairy. The wording on the float refers to the Great Magician "KOTON-EEN-DUSTREE" (Cotton Industry!). Annie was thrilled to be chosen to be part of the float. Mrs Sumner thinks that Annie was about 14 at the time and it's possible that she could have attended school for half a day and worked in the mill for the other half.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

1922

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Subjects

HISTORY > Before Nineteenth Century

Place Names > Preston

TRADITIONS > Celebrations

TRADITIONS > Guilds

TRADITIONS > Traditions

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