Liverpool's Annual May Day Procession 1925

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Item title reads - Liverpool's annual May Day procession. Merseyside.

L/S of a table containing a big trophy with smaller Cups surrounding it. L/S of shire horses decorated in ribbons, flowers and feathers. Other decorated horses ride past in the foreground pulling carts, and floats drive...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
25206
Sort Number:
G 1193
Time in/Out:
01:53:11:00 / 01:53:56:00
Canister:
G 1193
Film ID:
398.23
Issue Date:
28/05/1925

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