Whit Monday gathering at Town Gate, Huncoat

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iBase ID

303392

Reference identifier

HAC-H012-Y14-1704-1

Title

Whit Monday gathering at Town Gate, Huncoat

Place

Huncoat

Personal names

Richard Watson

General notes

Huncoat was well known for the Whit Monday processions of the Sunday schools from the Baptist and Methodist chapels and St Augustine's. Councillor Richard Watson, Mayor of Accrington 1928-29, is pictured in the centre of the photograph wearing a bowler hat and holding a hymn sheet. He died in 1930.

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Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

1929

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Subjects

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