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| Picture No | 10513139 |
| Date | 1948 |
| Description | John Mark lights the Olympic bowl, opening ceremony, 1948 |
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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.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph, the Sphere, 7 August 1948, p.163 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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