The cameras were used by young cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths between 1917 and 1920 to take five images which shocked and intrigued the world for decades. The pictures of the girls ...

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Towards the end of their lives Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths admitted faking the first four photographs – although Ms Griffiths always maintained the fifth and final picture was genuine.