ShroveTuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers,

Corfe Castle, Dorset.

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The photo above was taken in 1935. It shows 22 members of the Order with their chaplain, the Rector of Corfe Castle on Shrove Tuesday, 1935. In the background is the Fox Inn, which is still the base for the start of the Shrove Tuesday events.