Photograph: Allotment Potatoes, Lye & Wollescote Allotment Society

A photograph showing a group of men and one woman posing on an allotment behind 6 piles of potatoes and dated 1949. Annotated on the back, ‘Mr W.B.Willetts lift, I am not sure of weight’, part of the competition held by the Lye & Wollescote Allotment Society near Northampton. The show was begun in 1943 and held twice yearly competitions for potato production.