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Scene showing Nathaniel Newnham taking the Mayoralty Oath in the Guildhall

Three customers are entering his draper's shop on the left

20th May 1968

In the foreground figures amble through the park and by the water's edge two swans watch the approach of a boy

The Italian method of nose replacement mb-width 5740 Scene showing Nathaniel Newnham takingIllustrating the Italian Method of nose replacement surgery; the patient was required to wear a full body harness for approximately three weeks whilst the grafted skin from the upper arm fused with the skin on the face. The skin would then be entirely removed from the upper arm and sculpted into the replacement nose. The practice of this method was eventually replaced by the Indian Method because it was thought to produce unreliable noses as Carpue