Beating The Bounds At St Clements Danes… 1922

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London.

Full titles read: "After 24 Years - The ceremony of Beating the Bounds of the Parish of St. Clements Danes - the origin of which is lost in antiquity - revived.

M/S of people preparing for the ancient ceremony. Children in cap and gowns, walk in procession holding up the strange...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22965
Sort Number:
G 0880
Time in/Out:
01:15:43:00 / 01:16:37:00
Canister:
G 880
Film ID:
268.13
Issue Date:
29/05/1922

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