Gibb photograph archive, Volume 2

No. 5b - Clergy procession from the Cloisters, pre-1942.

Gibb includes this photograph in a sequence entitled as "pre-1942".

The context of this procession from the Cloisters is not known.

Commentary by Eric Dare: The third figure in the file [right-hand side of the procession] is Canon Hall who was a great favounte with the chonsters at Christmas when he gave us all a slap-up tea followed by a visit to the cinema. When we returned we had more to eat and then played Murder in his house with all the lights out. We told new boys it was haunted. If you ran upstairs you would suddenly be confronted by a ghostly figure. Canon Hall had gone up the back stairs, donned a surplice and switched on a torch beneath as soon as you got there. Quite frightening! Behind him is Canon McLaren, we nicknamed himLarry the Lamb, one of the characters in Toy Town, a favourite programme in Children's Hour, who spoke in a 'wobbly', bleating way. He gave us a dinner at Christmas in Dellers in the High Street - a very special venue before it was bombed.