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PARO Acc. 2767/69
Alberton picnic, by special train, 1910 (Jack Turner, Photographer)
 
Open to everyone, tea parties were advertised in the newspapers and drew crowds from across the Island. Special train schedules, adjusted to coincide with the events, allowed party-goers to travel across the Island and back in the same day.
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