John Mark lights the Olympic bowl, opening ceremony, 1948
The athlete and Surbiton medical student John Mark, a former Cambridge blue and quarter-miler, lights the bowl on the peristyle, on the east terrace of Wembley Stadium. The audience then sang the Olympic Hymn
Picture No
10513139
Media ID
46052565
Size
3773px x 4794px
(2.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph, the Sphere, 7 August 1948, p.163
Date
1948
