Somercotes Parish Church Sunday School Procession 1953

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Somercotes Parish Church Sunday School Procession 1953

Media Archive for Central England
Somercotes
1953-01-01
Silent
4m

It's Coronation year 1953 and at Somercotes in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire a procession is leaving the parish church on Nottingham Road and winding its way into town. Marching proudly behind a band with the church choir leading the way we see the children of the Sunday school (in their best clothes of course) stopping for hymns while the collecting purse is passed around. It's a brief snapshot of British life that has since been consigned to history.

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