| Main Performers | Rev Canon Fleming BD (presiding) - speaker
1000 Barnardo's children
Duke of Somerset - prize-giver,
Duchess of Somerset - purses |
| Set List | Included:
Demonstrations and entertainments (children),
Receiving of purses on behalf of the League (Duchess of Somerset),
Bestowing of Medals and Ribbons to Canon Feming and young women (Duchess of Somerset),
Bestowing of badges (Duke of Somerset),
Recitation - 'The Shoeblacks' (Canon Fleming),
Recitation - 'Give Us Men' (Right Rev Dr Bickersteth),
Limelight Picture Show,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | "The varied programme will include children's games, Music by a Choir of Seven Hundred Voices, and by Young Instrumentalists, Christmas in HM Hospital, Naval and Musical Drill, Limelight Pictures, Physical Exercises, Action Songs, Nursery Ditties &c... There will be no speeches, but Dr Barnardo will personally introduce the items of the programme."
(Morning Post 13 January 1902)
On the platform were Lord Howard de Walden, Lady Howard de Walden, Lord Rowton, Lord Kinnaird, the Swedish Minister, the bishop of Makenzie River, Bishop Sterling and Sir William and Lady Willis. (The Daily Telegraph, 20 January 1920) |