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The Dunmow Flitch: a procession of people follow the winning couple who are being carried in a chair on the shoulders of four men while others walk in front carrying a piece of bacon on a stick. Engraving by C. Mosley after D. Ogborne, 1751.

The Dunmow Flitch: the winning couple are carried through the crowded street in a litter, preceded by a person holding the flitch aloft on the end of a stick. Lithograph after David Ogborne.

A couple being carried along above the heads of a cheering crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

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The Dunmow Flitch: a procession of people follow the winning couple who are being carried in a chair on the shoulders of four men while others walk in front carrying a piece of bacon on a stick. Engraving by C. Mosley after D. Ogborne, 1751.

[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.

[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunmow R.D.C.