SUNDAY'S CROWDS
TOTAL ADMISSIONS FOR TWO
DAYS
(Received January 27, noon.)
LONDON, January 26.
By 10.15 this morning the crowd extended from Westminster Hall over Vauxhall Bridge on to the Albert Embankment, and included rich and poor, old and young, maimed old soldiers wearing medals, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, nurses, Salvation Army lasses, and several blinded people anxious to "sense" the scene.
When Westminster Hall was closed shortly after midnight; the day's admissions totalled 150,770, making, with Friday's total, over' 250,000. Another queue immediately began to form for the reopening of the hall.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 9
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93SUNDAY'S CROWDS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 9
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