| Main Performers | Lord Balfour,
Sir Robet Hermon-Hodge (Presiding - Chairman of the National Union),
Lord Plymouth (President of the National Union) |
| Set List | Opening speech (Sir Robet Hermon-Hodge),
Speech (Lord Balfour),
Resolution seconded (Sir George Bartley),
Proposition (Lord Plymouth),
Seconded (Sir Thomas Wrightson),
'National Anthem' (organ) |
| Performance Notes | According to The Times (26 June 1908) the Hall's seating was completely filled. It also reported that, 'Mr Balfour entered the hall. He walked from the main entrance to the platform down the middle gangway, and the vast audience recieved him upstanding and with the waving of handkerchiefs and repeated cheers....'The hall was decorated with flags; and banners were displayed bearing mottoes auch as, 'You cannot found temperance on injustice', 'We fight for right', 'Our voice is the voice of England', 'We stand for democracy, Liberty, and justice', and 'The writing on the wall - Mid Devon, Hereford, Worcester, Leeds, Hastings, Peckham, Dewsbury, Manchester, Pudsey.'
Seated on the platform were Sir Alexander Aeland-Hood MP, Lord Midleton, Sir Thomas Wrightson, Mr Henry Chaplin MP, Mr H O Arnold-Forster MP, Mr Stuart Wortley MP, Mr J S Sandars, Lord Hardinge, Lord Kenyon, Mr Arthur H Lee MP, Sir F D Dixon-Hartland MP, Sir Francis Lowe MP, Sir Joseph Lawrence, Mr E A Goulding MP, Sir George Bartley, Sir Harry Samuel, Mr H M Imbert-Terry and several others. |