Collop Monday at Meltham

Newspaper photograph of the February 1934 Collop Monday "penny scramble" at Meltham Mills from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

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• Collop Monday
• Meltham
• Meltham Mills

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collection:	Ephemera
tags:	1930-39, 1934, Collop Monday, Huddersfield Examiner (Newspaper), Meltham, Meltham Mills, Photographs, Photographs: Monochrome, Photographs: Newspaper
source:	Huddersfield Daily Examiner
date:	13 February 1934
rights:	Public Domain (PD)
date added:	22 February 2023

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The following is an uncorrected automated OCR transcription and will likely contain errors (expand):

COLLOP MONDAY AT MELTHAM
The young people of Meltham Mills look forward with eagerness to the Collop Monday scramble for new pennies, a custom started by the late Mr. Edward Brook and kept up by his grandson, Captain Brook.