Holy Island Wedding (1941)

Title reads: “Holy Island Wedding“. Holy Island, Northumberland Coast. L/S of island. M/S of Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin. M/S of bride, Mary Cromarty and her father arriving at church. L/S of bell tower. M/S of Mary and her new husband, Able Seaman James Douglas leaving the church. A little girl presents Mary with a lucky charm horse shoe. There then follows are series of post-wedding traditional customs: a crowd watches as the bride leaps over a small rock (“the petting stone“), several men then fire rifles over the happy couple, they then walk through town scattering coppers for local children, finally plate with a piece of wedding cake is broken above the brides’ head. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collec