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May Day flowers

December 10, 2014 by richardwebb Leave a Comment

A poignant photo of young girls from a school in Camborne, bedecked with wild flowers for May Day 1914. A few months later war would break out. It would be interesting to see a photo of the same girls in the following year.

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