Corby Pole Fair, Northamptonshire 1902
The Chairman, with the Charter'. Corby Pole Fair, in Northamptonshire taken place every 20 years on Whit-Monday since 1682, in celebration of the charter granted by Elizabeth I exempting local landowners from bridge tolls throughout the Kingdom. Photograph showing here of a procession with band at the head and organisers leaders seated in chairs attached to poles which are borne on the shoulders of some of the men
Picture No
11939037
Media ID
47659302
Size
5496px x 4088px
(4.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Benjamin Stone in Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures', page 2
Date
1902
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