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Little Italy Celebrates

The narrow streets of Clerkenwell fill up for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Non-Fiction 1928 1 mins Silent

Overview

Members of Clerkenwell's Italian community turn out in their 1000s for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (held every July), watched by British Screen News' cameras. With elaborate banners and a statue of the Virgin borne aloft through Little Italy's narrow streets by veiled young woman in flowing white robes, the procession is certainly una bella vista - especially when the sun makes an appearance.

South-western Clerkenwell, in the London Borough of Islington, earned itself the name Little Italy around the 1850s thanks to its 2000-strong population of Italian ex-patriots. Carlo Gatti, who we can thank for introducing ice cream to London, lived around here.

Genres

Non-Fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

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