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WEST COUNTRY GREETS PRINCESS
Princess Elizabeth visits Exeter and Plymouth. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical accuracy and do not...
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN WITCHES?
If you don't, go along to Toddington in Bedfordshire. Here, so they say, you can hear the witch of Toddington frying her pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. So every year, on pancake day, all the children gather to put the legend to the test....
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A TRUNK CALL
The wedding of two circus stars Miss Joan Fowles to Mr Gosta Kruse. Also paying a trunk call at the church was Jenny, who takes part in their circus act. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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A WEDDING PICTURE
The last social function attended by the Marquis and Marchioness of Vogue before each entered Holy Orders, was the wedding of their son. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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POZNAN SERVICE
Some five thousand Polish exiles attended a service at Brompton Oratory for their countrymen who died during the riots in Poznan. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
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ROYAL FAMILY AT ST. MARGARET'S WEDDING
Members of the Royal Family attended the wedding of Lady Margaret Egerton to John Colville. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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A WEDDING ON ""PARADISE"" ISLAND
Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific has only 160 inhabitants, therefore a wedding is big local news. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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FILM STARS HAVE LONDON WEDDING
Googie Withers and John McCallum were married at St. George's Hanover Square. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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A leaning spire - St. Mark's, Shoreditch.
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QUEEN'S NIECE WEDS
Their Majesties and Prince Philip were present at the wedding of the Queen's niece, the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone, and Mr Denys Rhodes. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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SCOTTISH BRIDE WEDS IN CYPRUS
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EARL OF HAREWOOD'S WEDDING
Crowds assembled outside St. Mark's, North Audley Street to see the arrival of the Royal Family and other guests for the wedding of the Earl of Harewood and Miss Marion Stein. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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CHRISTENING OF MR CHURCHILL'S SIXTH GRANDCHILD
It was an important occasion for the Churchill family when Captain Soames and his wife (formerly Mary Churchill) took their baby daughter to be christened. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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SEARCH FOR DICK WHITTINGTON'S TOMB
Excavations were recently begun in the bombed church of St. Michael Royal, as it is believed that this is where Dick Whittington is buried. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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WEDDING OF QUEEN'S GOD-DAUGHTER
A wedding at Holy Trinity, Brompton attended by Royalty, attracted large numbers of Londoners. The bride Miss Mary Sturt, her groom Lieutenant Commander George Marten, Naval Equerry to the King. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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CARDINAL SPELLMAN VISITS PORTUGUESE CATHEDRAL
The Cardinal led a procession to a shrine at the site of an Apparition of the Virgin Mary. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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DUTCH PRINCESS LAYS FOUNDATION STONE
A new Dutch Church in Austin Friars, London has been inaugurated. The ceremony was performed by Princess Irene of the Netherlands, who was accompanied by her father Prince Bernhard, Princess Alice, Lord Athlone and the Lord Mayor....
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QUEEN INAUGURATES NEW ST. COLUMBA'S
Her Majesty laid the foundation stone for the new St. Columba's Church. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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ANGELA LANSBURY'S LONDON WEDDING
At St. Columba's, Pont Street, Angela Lansbury, the film star marries Peter Shaw. The couple had both come over from Hollywood specially to be wed in London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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ROYAL GUESTS AT LADY ELIZABETH'S WEDDING
At St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, crowds thronged to witness the arrival of the Royal Family at the wedding of Mr Mark Longman and Lady Elizabeth Lambart. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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THE ROYAL FAMILY BEHIND THE COUNTER
It was to aid the fund for building a vestry, that members of the Royal Family helped at a sale of work, at Abergeldie Castle. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
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STEEPLEJACKS - NEW STYLE
The need for a weather-cock to be placed on the belfry of a church in Switzerland was the means of discovering a new use for helicopters. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
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BARNARDO ANNIVERSARY
At the village church, Barkingside a special service was held to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dr Barnardo. Nearly five hundred old Barnardo boys and girls attended. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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A BRIDE IN A MILLION
At Redcar, Yorkshire, a wedding with a difference. The bridegroom, Dennis Porritt had married a bride in a million - for Mrs Porritt (formerly Miss Barbara Wood) is the millionth post war immigrant to Australia. Disclaimer: British...