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Camera location53° 08′ 30.88″ N, 1° 38′ 27.42″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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English: A most unusual group of masked mummers or guisers performing outside Winster Hall, Derbyshire, England, circa 1870, with three hobby horses (one of the "mast" type, made with a painted horse skull; the two others are of unusual construction). One performer, in a long dress, is sweeping with a besom broom; two others (extreme left and right) are playing bladder and string.
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Source Archive photograph taken c. 1870
Author Possibly Llewellyn Jewitt

(Original print of this photo belongs to Derbyshire County Library) Scanned from a halftone original and reduced in size to lose the halftone dots.

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23 November 2011

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