Themes

Midday Dance

The Mayor and Dignitaries on Flora Day, Wakeham's Garden, Helston, 1950s

Number	HESFM:2009.10950.8
Place	Helston Cornwall United Kingdom
Date	1950 — 1959
Keywords	Local Customs Helston Flora Day Midday Dance
Photographer	Unknown
Copyright	Image Courtesy of Helston Museum

Photographic postcard of the Mayor and dignitaries in Wakeham's Garden, Helston, with the Midday Flora dancers behind, dated in the 1950s. Mrs Esther Reed Johns is standing in the centre, Mrs Dorothy Moyle is standing third from the right. Now, in 2016, Wakeham's Garden is known as the garden of Leslie House at the bottom of Lady Street. Part of the Jack Stephens Collection of local photographs.