A DICKENS WEDDING

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 23

A DICKENS WEDDING

Along Piccadilly in a Coach

A “four-in-hand” wedding straight from the pages of Dickens astonished the West End of London recently. Bowling along Piccadilly came a blue and white coach-and-four with scarletcoated coachmen, and ft man in a beaver hat and check trousers who drowned -the traffic noises with ills attempts to play the "Wedding March ’ on a long brass trumpet. Inside the coach sat the bride, in Ivory satin, with the bridegroom, and on the outside seats pretty bridesmaids in early Victorian dresses and large pink hats.

, Traffic gave way and the fanfaronade from the past echoed down Shaftesbury Avenue to tire church of St. Anne’s, Soho, where the wedding took place. The bride was Miss Ena Betty Smith, daughter of Mr. Hubert Waldron Smith, of Lee-on-the-Solent, who was for 25 years an owner of coaches at -Gosport. Her- bridegroom was Mr. Harry Tremenheere, formerly of Borneo. Later the bride and bridegroom left for the honeymoon in a taxi!