Ilford Hospital Carnival

Carnival fever hits Ilford and crowds come out to support a local hospital fundraiser.

Carnival spirit is high and like the folk of Ilford you will be transfixed by beautiful bikes, costumes and elaborately decorated floats - wishing locals peace and prosperity or advertising Bovril. This charity spectacle was captured by the Gaumont Graphic newsreel. Also see the 1907 film Crewe Hospital Procession and Pageant - very similar in subject, if a little more up close and personal.