1940 – The man who remembered Wellington’s funeral
November 28, 2016 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts, Chairman's Blog
We seem to have gone rather sonic all of a sudden, here is another clip (sound only) of a man, Frederick Mead, who spoke in 1940 about his memory as a child as his father went to The Great Duke’s funeral.
Today St Paul’s holds 2500 or thereabouts, in 1852 it held something like 25,000. Ablutions were a problem as the service was over an hour late. Interesting how you can almost touch history. My brother was born in 1940…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUrhmiGueY
