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Potato Competition, Lye & Wollescote Allotment Society, Northampton

A photograph showing a group of men and one woman posing on an allotment behind 6 piles of potatoes and dated 1949. Annotated on the back, ‘Mr W.B.Willetts lift, I am not sure of weight’, part of the competition held by the Lye & Wollescote Allotment Society near Northampton. The show was begun in 1943 and held twice yearly competitions for potato production.  Gift of Jilly Warren.

Ref: 2008.044

Artist

Unknown

Materials

Photograph

Theme

Photograph

Year

1949

Collection No:

2008.044