Town Hall Square "Rudolph"

Town Hall Square "Rudolph"
Town Hall Square "Rudolph"
Town Hall Square
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Title
Town Hall Square
"Rudolph"
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SWAIN ST - WOODBOY ST (CDV) Strongroom Stack 101
"Town Hall Square"

"Rudolph" and sleigh with nurses at town square (mis-attributed?) or Leicester Royal Infirmary

Since Dec 1949 the Leicester fire service have collected money and gifts each Christmas to send to the hospitals. Fireman toured the streets of Leicester in an evening collecting, which was then used to buy more presents. Rudolph lived at Lancaster Road Fire station and was on display at the middle doors.

(Information kindly provided by Ken Grain and Margaret Richardson, Hon. treasurer, Friends of the Record Office)

1/4 Glass plate negative
Lumbers 126.1962
GP5919

Negatives Collection, The Record Office
LCC ID. No.
GP5919
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