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The Hoylake shore has been pretty much iced-up all week but back on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1909 it was jam packed with a woman on her soapbox engaging a captive audience. Many thanks to Syd Bird for the image that was copied from a glass plate negative.
Although it could have been the fashion of the time, I wonder if the weather wasn’t too great as many of the people look reasonably well wrapped-up.
I wonder what the soapbox lady was talking about?
Suffragette surely? Wonder whatshe would thinkof voting turnouts these days.
…or possibly she was announcing that the Red Arrows had been cancelled due to bad weather….?