Visitors’ London

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

500

Date Released

1968

Length of issue (in feet)

147

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Visitors’ London

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

NoS synopsis: Revisits an earlier edition of "This Week In Britain", in which reporter Sue Donovan visits various tourist spots in London that have Australian associations, including: Australia House; the "Cutty Sark"; Captain Bligh’s House in Lambeth Road; John McDouall Stuart’s House in Campden Hill Square; St Paul’s Church in Portman Square, which is in the care of Bishop Goodwin Hudson, formerly Co-adjutor Bishop of Sydney; and the tombstone, in the parish church of Eltham in south east London, of Yemmerrawanyea, one of two Aborigines brought to England in 1793 by Governor Arthur Phillip.

Researcher Comments

NB: Information drawn from the Australian Special New Version

Keywords

Scenery and travel

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 936/500

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Cutter

Frank Watkins

Presenter

Gail Wheeler

Support services

Hazel Swift

Cutter

John Maxwell

Support services

Richard Selfe

Presenter

Sue Donovan

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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