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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7913/3/5
TitleDigital photographs of photographic prints, stored on CD.
Date2015
DescriptionComprising:
D7913/3/5/1: 65 jpeg photographs of photographic prints, showing early 1980s South Normanton arts events, precursors to Junction Arts. Most of these are not from originals held by Derbyshire Record Office, although a small proportion of the photographs shown are duplicated in series D7913/3/3. Photographs include:

A giant Guy Fawkes effigy placed on top of wooden pallets in preparation for a bonfire.
Newspaper article about South Normanton and the arts by Peter Loveday and Liz Allen, Community Artists in South Normanton, Border News, undated but c1980.
Photographs of children playing on the "Dinosaur on the Top Rec", with associated newscutting (see D7913/3/3/1979/1).
People in fancy dress ready in a carnival parade, including children dressed as scarecrows on a National Coal Board carnival float.
Photographs from "The Rubbish Story" play with puppets, including community worker Simon Hatfield (see D7913/3/3/1980/2).
Simon Hatfield dressed as a town crier, alongside people wearing sandwich boards advertising "Mayfayre: an exhibition of local art and craft and musical entertainment" at South Normanton Community Centre, 17-18 May [1980] - another photograph shows "Supernorm" (see D7913/3/3/1977/3, D7913/4/1/1989) wearing the same board.
Brass band performing on a pavement in South Normanton.
Photographs of craft work in the "Mayfayre" exhibition, including wood carvings and a cross-stitched Lord's Prayer and Queen Elizabeth II.
Article on the Mayfayre exhibition by Border News (Notts Free Press).
A c2015 photographic portrait of Simon Hatfield, standing in a kitchen.
For copy, see CD/396
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorJunction Arts of Chesterfield, formerly formerly Junction 28 Arts Project, South Normanton, participatory arts organisation
CopiesA digital copy of this item is available to view on the public computers at the record office.
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