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Arthur Reynolds's Edward Elgar collection

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The Hallé
1909

Elgar and chemistry. Photograph taken by his niece, May Grafton, in 1909 of Elgar indulging in his amateur-chemist hobby in The Ark, his makeshift lab in a shed on the grounds of Plâs Gwyn.
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