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Description: | Crowds on the Strand queue for a bus to the country on Whit Monday, June 1914. St Mary le Strand church is in the background. The B-type bus is going to Putney, Richmond and Kingston.
Whit Monday or Pentecost was the day after the seventh Sunday after Easter, and was celebrated as a bank holiday. Thousands took the opportunity to get out of London and visit the countryside or the beach.
Whit Monday is now the late May bank holiday. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | Jun 1914 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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