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2008.120.16

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Slide, colour, showing children riding a miniature train along a raised track on The Arena area in Eastcheap. A man in a hat is controlling the train at the front. The train is watched by other children, one on a bicycle, and a man in a hat. The Palace cinema and the Fire Station are visible behind the train. Handwritten on a label on the slide's glass cover is 'Railway. R. T. Fair 1956', dating the image and suggesting it shows part of a Round Table fair. Image by Geoffry Coad.