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Photograph 1 is of a gardener, in the garden, holding garden shears and with a rake in ground, c 1900. Photograph 2 is a group photograph of Retreat gardeners pictured in front of the greenhouse, c 1900. Photographs 3-6 are snapshots of Retreat gardeners in c1930s, pictured in front of greenhouse; names suggested for these people are on photographs 3-4: Stan Belt, Alf Foster, Bill Downes, Wilf Eastwood, Reg Brown. Photograph 5 is of Wilf Eastwood and others. Photograph 6 has figures named as Wilf Eastwood, Reg Grainger and John Hick. Photograph 7 shows same people.

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