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Summary: digital scan, postcard(?). Accident at Rising Sun, Wootton, on 26 August 1938, involved car and a milk lorry; lorry on its side. See Bailey and Lake page 107.Identification note: part of collection of digital scans of images relating to our area. All black and white. New Milton.Identification note: Accident at the Rising Sun Pub...

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Summary: digital scan, postcard(?). Accident at Rising Sun, Wootton, on 26 August 1938, involved car and a milk lorry; lorry on its side. See Bailey and Lake page 107.

Identification note: part of collection of digital scans of images relating to our area. All black and white. New Milton.

Identification note: Accident at the Rising Sun Pub at Wootton in 1938 when a milk lorry coming from Tiptoe collided with a car coming from New Milton. According to a report in the New Milton Advertiser, seven people were involved in the crash and when the lorry overturned losing its load of churns ‘milk was thrown all over the road’.

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