6-year-old in Royal Festival Hall - the 1950's

from Southbank Centre Archive:

1951 when the hall was completed I was only 6 at the time and a workman was playing about on the stage and played the mouth organ and said he was the first person to play on the stage.

cite as

Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1448965252475 accessed: 29 March, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)

location of experience: Royal Festival Hall

Listeners

Listening to

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Mouth organ performed by Workman

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1950's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by Liz Ford on Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:20:53 +0000
Approved on Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:28:31 +0000