Photograph
2009/12211
1950-2000 / Collection Type / Colour / Paper / Photograph / Wesley's Chapel
Paper
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II being handed a bouquet of flowers, 1978
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II being handed a bouquet of flowers at the re-opening ceremony at Wesley's Chapel in November 1978. His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip and a lady-in-waiting stand to the right in the photograph.
The Chapel had undergone a comprehensive scheme of restoration between 1972 and 1978, following severe structural issues with the foundations, the roof and the south gallery. The re-opening ceremony took place two hundred years to the day of the Chapel opening in November 1778.
See also the other photographs of the same occasion in the Online Collection.
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II being handed a bouquet of flowers, 1978
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II being handed a bouquet of flowers at the re-opening ceremony at Wesley's Chapel in November 1978. His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip and a lady-in-waiting stand to the right in the photograph.
The Chapel had undergone a comprehensive scheme of restoration between 1972 and 1978, following severe structural issues with the foundations, the roof and the south gallery. The re-opening ceremony took place two hundred years to the day of the Chapel opening in November 1778.
See also the other photographs of the same occasion in the Online Collection.
