The 1981 Royal Wedding: a children's street party in Portsmouth

From the collection of

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

The 1981 Royal Wedding: a children's street party in Portsmouth


The streets of Portsmouth are seen bedecked in bunting, flags and posters of Charles and Diana.Children in a wide variery of fancy dress, emerge from their homes and gather in the street. We see the children and their parents chatting with the compere of the fancy dress competition. Many of the children are dressed in imaginative and contemporary costumes, like a Rubik's cube. The children are then seated at a long table where cakes and ice-creams are served.


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