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Topical Budget 485-2: Distinguished Scientist's Remarkable Request (1920)
 

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Title: "Mr Spencer Pickering, Burried (sic) Under Rock on Devonshire Coast with Head Towards the Dawn".

Spencer Pickering's horse-drawn funeral procession moves along a winding road near the Devonshire coast. The coffin is trundled into position on a wooden cart, and six pallbearers lift it off and lower it into the grave. Two priests perform funeral rites as the attendees bow their heads. Two women walk up to the grave holding floral wreaths.