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Scene 1:  Oh, the hard times of old England

Main characters L to R: Betsy Loveless (Tracey Halsey), Dinniah Loveless (Sonia Woolley), Harriet Hammett (Rebekah Janes), George Loveless (Tim Block), James Loveless (Dougal Lee), James Brine (Josh Elwell), Thomas Standfield (Bernard Finch)

 

 

Scene 2: R to L: Thomas Standfield and George Loveless meet farmer (Michael Lunts), Frampton (Desmond Gill),  Rev. Warren (Paul Sirr),  and farmer (Jonathan Wyatt)

 

Scene 3: the Methodist Meeting

 

Scene 4: Harvest

 

Scene 5: Edward Legg (Michael Lunts) is initiated into the union

Scene 5: George (Tim Block) brings the Caution notice home to Betsy (Tracey Halsey, L) and Dinniah Satndfield (Sonia Woolley)

 

 

Scene 6: the trial

Martyrs in chains

Scene 7: the Martyrs in chains. L to R:  John Standfield (Roy Leighton), Thomas Standfield (Bernard Finch), James Loveless (Dougal Lee), George Loveless (Timothy Block), James Hammett (Nigel Makin), James Brine (Josh Elwell)Behind, ensemble create nationwide protest builds against the sentence.

 

Scene 7: Betsy (Tracey Halsey) and Dinniah (Sonia Woolley) take their families to claim relief from James Frampton.

 

Act 2 Scene 1: George Loveless, convict

Act 2 Scene 1: convicts disembark in Botany Bay

George with Spode

Act 2 Scene 1: George with his master William Spode (Julian Bleach)

 

Act 2 Scene 5: at their new farms in Essex, James Brine marries Elisabeth Standfield

 

 

Act 2 Scene 6: the families consider their future

 

 

 

Photos by Whitehouse Photographic Studio, Durrington, Wilts.

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