THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES ON DISPLAY
Five photographs of fairies dancing at the bottom of a Yorkshire garden that became “the world’s longest running hoax” are the focus of a compelling new exhibition.
The Cottingley Fairies legend began in the summer of 1917 as the Great War raged in the trenches of the Western Front. Schoolgirl Elsie Wright, 16, took a photograph of her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths posing with some tiny dancing figures that she had drawn and attached to hat pins arranged around the Cottingley Beck, between Bradford and Bingley, in West Yorkshire
According to the exhibition it all began with a tall
