JOHN WALMSLEY Bottle Kicking

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JOHN WALMSLEY Bottle Kicking, Hallaton, Leicestershire, 1973

JOHN WALMSLEY Bottle Kicking, Hallaton, Leicestershire, 1973 is a self-published book.

“One of our traditional customs. On Easter Mondays, the menfold of two villages in Leicestershire, battle it out across a muddy field to see which of them can wrestle a small barrel, the ‘Bottle’, back to their own village. Not for the faint hearted.” – John Walmsley

John Walmsley

John Walmsley has been a freelance documentary photographer since leaving Art School in 1968. His final year project on A.S. Neill and his democratic school, Summerhill, was published by Penguin Books in 1969.
His work has been published in 1,000+ books worldwide (Walmsley is the author or joint-author of 15 of them).
In one form or another, his work is also held at the National Portrait Gallery, the National Art Library at the V&A, the V&A Museum of Childhood, the Tate Britain Library, Liverpool Museum and la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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