Record

Performance TitleWomen's League of Health and Beauty - Coronation Year Display 1953
Performance Date23 May 1953
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:00
Main Performers1,200 teachers and members including;

Teachers:
Beryl Bennett,
Molly Brown,
Enid Frost,
Elizabeth Paine,
Margaret Fredman,
Nan McCaffer,
Joan Wilder,
Midge Brown,
Mavis Budge,
Anne Lillis,
Lois Payton,
Muriel Holton,
Mary Bell,
Dorothy Malone,
Ruth anderson,
Marie Connor,
Pat Kennedy,
Suzanne Coe,
Kathleen Ward,
Eirlys Jones,
Elizabeth Henderson,
Peggy Messent,
Muriel Rowett,
Kirsteen Elmhirst,
Kitty Carroll,
Kathleen O'Rourke,
Sheila Moore-Tucker,
Joan Florey,
Seona Ross,
Joyce Bainbridge,
Nancy Dobbin,
Betty Urquhart,
Eileen Atkinson,
Doris Dewar,
Pamela Moore,
Ruth Lane,
Eileen MacMurray,
Pat Rowlandson,
Jean Yuill,
Joan Jefferies,
Heather Delaine,
Jeanette Ewing,
Carol Kerr Hunter,
Daphne Butler Child,
Joy Flanaghan,
Eunice Thacker,
Monica Curtis,
Estelle Craddock,
Edith Strudwick,
Lynn Wallwork,
Vickie Gunter,
Kay Hudson,
Eileen Barnes

South Africa represented by 27 members from Cape Town,
43 children (22 months – 4 years) taught by Sheila Moore Tucker

Deirdre Welsh,
Barbara Bradford - pianos
Secondary PerformersPrunella,
Joan St.Lo,
Kathleen O'Rourke,
Doris Dewar,
Marnel King - judges
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
'A Salute from Canada', Dr James M Gayfer
Performance NotesThe event was part televised by the BBC from 20:45-21:15.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1953/69)
B&W Photograph of Canadian members rehearsing (RAHE/3/1953/6)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/0HW0H590foVIk
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/69The Women's League of Health and Beauty - Coronation Year Display23 May 1953
RAHE/3/1953/6Photograph of the Women's League of Health and Beauty - Coronation Year Display 195323 May 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Irahykut_BeahWomen's League of Health and Beauty - Coronation Year Display 19531
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3611Stack; Prunella (1914-2010); OBE; British fitness exponent, teacher
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