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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

on BBC Home Service Basic

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5.15 'Ditty Box'
Songs from the seamen's chest by The BBC Men's Chorus conducted by Trevor Harvey
Soloist, Stanley Riley
5.30 A Children's Service from the Royal Hospital School
Chapel, Holbrook, Suffolk
Conducted by the Senior Chaplain, the Rev. H. Goulding , R.N.
This school has been called the Cradle of the Navy. The boys are the sons of Naval men and Royal Marines and will mostly follow in their fathers' footsteps. In 1933 the school was moved from Greenwich, where, more than two hundred years ago, it began with only ten boys. It is now more than eight hundred strong.
The choirmaster is F. J. Buckley , the organist A. Ward. The captain of the school, Captain E. Bruce -Gardyne, D.S.O., R.N., will read the Lesson.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey
Soloist:
Stanley Riley
Unknown:
Rev. H. Goulding
Unknown:
F. J. Buckley
Organist:
A. Ward.
Unknown:
Captain E. Bruce

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