Queen Mother celebrates 90th Birthday with visit to East End
- Title
- Queen Mother celebrates 90th Birthday with visit to East End
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music
- TX Date
- 2 Aug 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:03:25
- Description
- John Allen reports for LBC Newstalk Breakfast from Canning Town in the East End of London. The Queen Mother is celebrating her 90th birthday by revisiting Canning Town and Tower Hamlets 50 years after her morale-boosting visits during the Second World War. Local residents remember the bombings that happened in their town and speak of the restoration work that has taken place since the Queen Mother’s last visit. Includes the crowd singing Happy Birthday.
- Contributors
- John Allen; Ruth Gibbons; Laura Holmes; Steve Driscoll; Mary Lee; Victoria Bullock
- Keywords
- London; Tower Hamlets; Royal visits; Schools; Royal family; Second World War (1939-1945); Royalty; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; Birthdays; South Hallsville School; Canning Town; Hallsville School
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