Picture No | 11939040 |
Date | 1902 |
Description | Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902 |
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Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning. Gathered are twenty-one aged widows with the church officials and a few spectators. Photograph showing a widow kneeling and picking up one of the sixpences, on rising she receives a freshly-baked hot-cross bun from another gentleman, who then assists her to walk over the stone, subsequently each widow is presented with a penny.
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Source | Photograph by Benjamin Stone in 'Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures', page 5 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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