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Lord Halifax at Hickleton

August 1939

Mexborough and Swinton Times August 18, 1939

A delightfully informal group pictured by our staff photographer at the village cricket match at Hickleton on Sunday.

Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, personifies the tranquility of the occasion, as he reclines on the grass watching the Hickleton Estate team trying to bowl out a side captained by one of his sons, the Hon, Peter Wood.