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Cotton Village Fete 1968
Bonny and Clyde and a Corpse Bride. A fancy dress parade impresses a crowd at the Cotton village fete, Suffolk in 1968.
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Mid-Suffolk resident Keith Bullock captures Cotton Village Fete in 1968. A fancy dress parade of inventive characters from the children of the village amuse the crowds. In addition, there is ‘Punch and Judy’, fair games, and pony rides. The filmmaker captures the fete again in 1972.
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