Metropolitan Police Minstrel Orchestra

The Metropolitan Police Minstrel Orchestra posing for a group photograph outside a wooden hut. Their faces are blacked up, and they are wearing black woolly wigs. They are all holding musical instruments: violins, a double bass, a bassoon, a trumpet, a clarinet and a flute. Two of them are wearing a wartime medal

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