Stone Compilation - Ashburton Park, Croydon
Super 8mm film Colour Mute 1977 26:40
Summary: The Silver Jubilee is celebrated at a Fete in Ashburton Park, Croydon, followed by two weddings, a London boat ride and a seaside jaunt.
Title number: 20541
LSA ID: LSA/27099
Description: Fete event (likely '77 Jubilee Day at Ashburton Park, Croydon - stalls set up, people arriving, crockery smash game, police display: motorcylce team wearing black uniforms with white helmets, horse ride through the moving motorocyclists, polo demonstration with horses and motortcycles. Street parade in Croydon - sea cadets and floats pass. Back to Ashburton Park - marching bank, majorettes, sea cadets unloading van and perfrom a demonstration, actors on a stage performing a skit (raining), night falls. Fireworks display - very hard to make out but culminates with the Queen's head in fireworks, night funfair; Berney's road - shot of street and garages; Colin's Wedding Colin’s at Emmanuel Church, Bormanton Road, South Croydon, 13th Sept 1975 - exterior of church, bride arrives with father, she stands outside church with husband and both are dressed in '70s styles clothing, group shots, bride and groom getting into car driving off; Elaine's Wedding at Croydon Parish Church, now Croydon Minster, 27th May 1978 - different church, more formal, bridemaides, standard groups shots, crowd, women with children; River Trip Thames to Greenwich - starts at St Paul's, past RRS Discover, HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge, under more bridges; Cockington Forge, Devon - beach holiday, child on beach, go karts, vist to a farm, shire horse.
Credits: Stone, Graham (Filmmaker)
In galleries: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Croydon; Ashburton Park
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