Ceremony Collection (page 11)

Soldiers at Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Soldiers in a riverside scene at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Soldiers and procession, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Soldiers standing to attention and on horseback in procession at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Spectators at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Spectators on a grandstand at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Crowds of people at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Crowds of people at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

King Emperors Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The King Emperors Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Assam Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The Assam Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Pavilion, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The pavilion, for the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911, with King George V and Queen Mary surrounded by crowds of people. Date: 1911

King Albert of Belgium unveiling WW1 Memorial, Zeebrugge
King Albert of Belgium unveiling the First World War memorial at Zeebrugge. 1925

Prince of Wales lights lamp, Talbot House Toc H, Belgium
The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) lighting the Lamp of Maintenance at Talbot House Toc H, Poperinge, Flanders, Belgium, 15 December 1922. 1922

Distribution of the Crimean medals 1856
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert awarding medals to soldier who have served in the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Nuptial Ceremony of Portuguese Jews
This engraving depicts a wedding of Portuguese Jews. Jewish weddings have various laws and traditions. Some common features of these weddings include a marriage contract known as a ketubah

The Spouses of the Law Conducted Home
Depiction of the Spouses of the Law conducted home Date: 1737

Purim ceremony 1712
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, who had planned to kill all Jews. Purim involves exchanging gifts of food and drink

Zadoc Kahn installed as Chief Rabbi of France 1890
Zadoc Kahn being installed as the Chief Rabbi of France. Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild is depicted reading the decree of nomination. Date: 1890

Sir W W Wynn initiated at the Eisteddfod, Porthmadog, Wales
Sir W W Wynn initiated as an Ovate at the Eisteddfod, Porthmadog, North Wales. Date: 1872

State Coach in Royal Pageant, Reopening of Parliament
State Coach, containing the King and Queen, in the Royal Pageant from Buckingham Palace to Westminster for the reopening of Parliament, London. Date: 1922

Changing of the Guard, Whitehall, London, a daily ceremony, with Life Guards on horseback in their scarlet uniforms. Date: 1922

Judges processing from Westminster Abbey, London
Judges processing from the Poets Corner doorway of Westminster Abbey to the House of Lords, London, at the end of the Long Vacation, after attending a special service. Date: 1922

Swearing-in ceremony of a Lord Chief Justice, London. He is sworn in by the Lord High Chancellor, with a row of High Court judges behind, and Kings Counsel below. Date: 1922

Unveiling statue of Duke of Cambridge - New War Office
The statue of Duke of Cambridge outside the new War Office, unveiling ceremony. Date: 1907

Annual procession of the Holy Blood, Bruges, Belgium -- supposedly drops of Jesuss blood brought from the Holy Land in 1150 by Theodoric, Count of Flanders, preserved in a chapel in the Grand Place

Margaret, Maid of Norway, crowned
Margaret, Maid of Norway, (1283-1290) is believed to have been crowned on the stone of Scone which was later incorporated into the Coronation Chair on the instructions of Edward I. Date: 13th century

Gun carriage and soldiers at funeral of Unknown Warrior
Gun carriage flanked by soldiers, with a flag-draped coffin, during the funeral of the Unknown Warrior, brought from France, via Dover and Victoria Station

King George V and Queen Mary, new County Hall, London
King George V and Queen Mary opening the new County Hall building in London. 1922

Gun carriage for funeral of Unknown Warrior, London
Aerial view of the gun carriage at the funeral of the Unknown Warrior, leaving Victoria Station, London, November 1920. 1920

Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, Isle of Man
Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, 4th Earl Granville, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, taking part in a procession on Tynwald Hill, an ancient ceremony promulgating new laws, on 5 July 1938. 1938

Arch-Druid and Druids

Queen Victorias farewell to the Duke of Wellington, 131 guns, Spithead, 11 March 1854. 1854

The launch of the ironclad ship HMS Alexandra by Alexandra, Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) 7th April 1875. 7th April 1875

Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance at the Albert Hall
A public baptismal ceremony at the Albert Hall on Good Friday, 1928, where nine hundred men and women of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance were immersed in a tank of warm water

The Climax of the Pilgrimage, Ypres, Belgium
The Grand Climax of the Pilgrimage, in Ypres, Belgium. Prince Charles of Belgium and Admiral Jellicoe inspecting the Belgian Guard of Honour, together with Lord Granville and Colonel Heath (above)

Footman at a feast, the Imperial Court, Berlin, Germany
Footman at a feast at the Imperial Court, Berlin, Germany. circa 1898

Indian ceremonies, Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA
Indian ceremonies during the summer carnival in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1920

Coronation Procession, Admiralty Arch, London
The Coronation Procession of King George V and Queen Mary passing through Admiralty Arch, London, 22 June 1911. Date: 1911

Laying the first stone of Blackfriars Bridge, London
Laying the first stone of Blackfriars Bridge by the Lord Mayor of London. 1769

Lambeth HQ opening ceremony. Date: 1937

Beating the bounds of the Tower of London 1906
Beating the bounds is still carried out in the Tower of London today every three years on Ascension Day. One of Londons oddest traditions

Welsh Eisteddfod 1906
Opening of Gorsedd, Ceremony in which druids are in a circle, the Gorsedd (meaning chief) sit on a throne, where the Eisteddfod is proclaimed. 1906

Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia 1906
Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia and Offices. Ceremony in the Royal National Eisteddfod takes place every summer in the first week of August, been happening for a couple of centuries since 1568

Collecting Wroth Money
Ceremony at Knightlow Cross. A tribute which dates back for a thousand years and connects the present with that remote past when the central countries of Ebgland were for the most part a wild

Swan Upping on the Thames 1900
Annual ceremony taking place on the Thames where British Crown swans are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. The party occupy a flotilla of row boats the sterns adorned with flags

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

Sir John Voce Moore leading Joseph Chamberlain
A Couple of Js. Serjeant-at-Arms Sir John Voce Moore (18261904), English businessman and Lord Mayor of London (1898) leading Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) into the House of Commons. Date: 1900

Mary Tudor marries King Philip II at Winchester Cathedral
Mary Tudor (1516-1558) marries King Philip II (1527-1598) at the Cathedral at Winchester on 25 July 1554. 1554

A Young soldier prays the night before becoming a Knight, with his sword and shield in front of him. 12th century

The opening days of the coronation ceremonies to mark the Emperor of India with Edward VII not attending, instead sending his brother, the Duke of Connaught

Berlin pre-WWII
German troops at the Brandenburg Gate. Changing of the Guard by the Berliner Guard Regiment. Date: 1935

Austrian officer - Anschluss
Swearing in ceremony of Austrian officers at the Theresianum in Vienna.The ceremony took place in the presence of the Chancellor and members of government

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