YHA Float at Beeston Carnival - late 1940s

YHA Carnival Float

Members of a local Youth Hostelling Association group on a carnival float, probably in the late 1940s.
Taken on the Rugby Ground, Ireland Avenue, Beeston, where the carnival was based in 1948, 1949 and 1950.

This extract from the Nottingham Evening Post of 8 August 1949 may help to identify the year and those involved
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Photo from the collection of John Eric George (1931-1993, kindly supplied by Lynn Richards (née George), his daughter.

Any information about those shown in the photograph or the occasion would be most welcome


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