A palmist at Olympia Pleasure Palace, Blackpool. This photograph was printed in Geographical Magazine in April 1938 to accompany an article written by Tom Harrisson about “The Fifty Second Week”. The original caption read:

The gypsies were partly responsible for Blackpool’s success: they are still very important as magicians and fortune-tellers. This one noticed the Mass-Observational camera and so did a little palmistry.