Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1946-05-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007479

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: London / Pagent [sic.]; typed on label: ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL, LONDON, STAGES PAGEANT OF ITS / 800 YEARS OF HISTORY. / St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 823 years old, is staging / a pageant of its historynin [sic.] the old Priory Church of St. / Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London, as part of the / commemoration of its second foundation 400 years ago. The / King and Queen will be present. The hospital was founded by / Rahere, Henry I’s court jester, who turned monk, in 1123, / when it was known as Bartholomew’s Priory. Henry VIII closed / for the re-opening of “Barts” in 1546, and it is the anniversary / of the re-opening that the hospital is now celebrating. / PHOTO SHOWS:- Robert Morley as Henry VIII with Viola Lyel as / in the ancient Briory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, / London, during a rehearsal. / ES May 8th 1946 PN; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / PARADES
Retouching: N