Wakes Sports, Gnosall

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Date:13th of August 1906

Description:A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station: the station buildings can be seen on the embankment in the background.

Standing on a bed frame are William Jackson and Elizabeth Peake who had been married at St. Lawrence's church that morning. Mr Martin Mitchell presented the happy couple with their wedding presents which were brought to them one by one by the wedding guests and included the bedstead, a mattress, chamber pots, a washstand set and a dinner service.

Postcard photographed by Harry Osbourne of Woodseaves.

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Image courtesy of: The Roy Lewis Postcard Collection

Donor ref:Roy Lewis-682 (240/48003)

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