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Tom Pricket and Biagio Capasso, an Italian POW Raking Leaves

Joseph Hardman (1893–1972)

Lakeland Museum

Tom Pricket and Biagio Capasso, an Italian POW Raking Leaves

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A man raking leaves and other man with wheelbarrow in the ground of Dallam Tower Estate, Milnthorpe. The man with the wheelbarrow is Biagio Capasso, a prisoner of war, captured in North Africa in 1940. He was send to work at Dallam Tower from the Bela River POW camp, later he married and settled in Milnthorpe. The other man is Tom Pricket. The river is the River Bela, being crossed by 'the New Bridge' (Dallam Bridge) archbridge. Underneath the arch you can see two legs of the Old Bela Rail viaduct from th Arnside to Hincaster branch railway. This viaduct was demolished in the 1960s.

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Title

Tom Pricket and Biagio Capasso, an Italian POW Raking Leaves

Medium

glass plate negative

Accession number

2002.8.128

Acquisition method

gifted

Work type

Photograph

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Lakeland Museum

Kirkland, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5AL England

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Joseph Hardman

1893–1972

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