Hillsborough sisters’ funeral

Title

Hillsborough sisters’ funeral

Genre

News report; Speech; Music

TX Date

24 Apr 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:52

Description

Simon Bowden reports on the funeral of teenage sisters Sarah and Vicki Hicks in London-they were victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster (15/04/89). Popular music was played, some chosen by Sarah as she had believed she would die young. Includes excerpt of sermon by Baptist minister Kenneth Jarvis. Ends with playing of Liverpool anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone which ended the service, the sisters were then being buried in Liverpool’s Allerton Cemetery.

Contributors

Simon Bowden; Kenneth Jarvis

Keywords

Deaths; London; Association football; Funerals; Sheffield; Football stadiums; Liverpool Football Club; Disasters (events); Nottingham Forest Football Club; Hillsborough Stadium disaster (1989); Trevor Hicks; Jenni Hicks; Sarah Hicks; Vicki Hicks

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