Topical Budget: Prettiest May Queen, Hayes Common (1926)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1926 1:07
Summary: May Queen of London festival and coronation of 1926 at Hayes Commons
Title number: 19798
LSA ID: LSA/26241
Description: The annual May Queen festival was a very popular event in the 1920s. This newsreel footage begins with various local May Queens – one carries a banner for Mitcham – and pages marching past, before we are introduced the May Queen of London. She is shown leaving the church after a ceremony with bells being rung, and then anointed with garlands of flowers as she giggles shyly.
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Keywords: London; May Queen Festival; May Queen of London; Hayes Common
Locations: UK, London, Bromley. Croydon, Hayes Common
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