Opening of Corams Field and Harmsworth Memorial Playground
On first day of the court moving from full to half-mourning, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother 1900-2002), opens Corams Field and Harmsworth Memorial Playground, saving the old Foundling Hospital site as playgrounds for the children. The Duchess is here talking to children playing in the sandpit
Picture No
11936908
Media ID
46679540
Size
3720px x 4838px
(7.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Coronation Book of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Date
1936
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