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| Picture No | 10949345 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Christmas day at the Hackney street shrines, London, 1916 |
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Christmas tide at war shrines: gifts for the fighters' children, 1916. Father Christmas(aka the Reverend G. C Morrow) distributed gifts with the help of ladies and soldiers home on leave, to a crowd of enthusiastic youngsters. The patriotic procession halted at every war shrine in the parish, and was organised by the Reverend B.S Batty, Rector of South Hackney.
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| Source | Drawing by Samuel Begg in The Illustrated London News, 6th January 1917, page 18-19. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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