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Flax growing

Catalogue Reference:(PRO) CO 956/207

A poster from the Empire Marketing Board which was set up in 1926 to promote goods from the British Colonies and Dominions. This shows a field of flax being harvested in Northern Ireland. Ireland's climate is well suited for growing flax, the raw material for making linen.

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