“To The Royal Hop Pole Hotel For Dinner!“ (1928)

Full titles read: ’“To the Royal Hop Pole Hotel for Dinner!“ - Mr. Pickwick’s famous visit re-enacted by Dicken’s [sic] Fellowship at Centenary celebrations.’ Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Various shots of a horse-drawn stagecoach loaded with people in Victorian costume moving past a pub called ’The Swan Inn’ and then being held up in another street by a Highwayman robber (looks like a woman in costume); a crowd of people watch. M/S of the man dressed as Mr Pickwick standing with the Mayor of Tewkesbury, other characters from Charles Dickens’ novel and dignitaries. M/S of the group of people from the Dickens Fellowship dressed as characters from ’The Pickwick Papers’. C/U of Mr Pickwick. FILM ID:734.4 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical colle