Daily Herald Photograph: Kidney bean competition

Daily Herald Photograph: Kidney bean competition Daily Herald Photograph: Kidney bean competition

Daily Herald Photograph: Kidney bean competition
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Daily Herald Photograph: Kidney bean competition
Science Museum Group
© TopFoto/SMG Images

One photograph titled 'Still trying to find largest bean after two centuries - oldest inhabitant has his eye on the barrel of beer!'. The photograph shows eighty-year-old John Weaving measuring kidney beans while a group of men watch. Caption on the back reads: 'For the 202nd year, the Kidney Bean competition is taking place in an inn at Besselsleigh, Oxford. Customers vie with each other to produce the biggest beans, the prize being a barrel of near. There is no shortage of entrants. The beans entered in the competition are hung from the rafter of the inn for all the envy.'

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/41708
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print