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Hindley Carnival

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Hindley Carnival, 1920.
Hindley Carnival, 1920.
Photo: Keith Guest
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Item #: 2859
Taken in Hindley North Station yard before the carnival parade of 1920.

The float depicts the death of British nurse Edith Cavell at the hands of a German firing squad in 1915. Nurse Cavell had been accused of spying by the Germans.

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