3-070-750 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening of the National Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich: arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1881. 'The Prince and Princess of Wales, at Norwich, on Monday, opened this instructive and interesting exhibition, which has been arranged with the co-operation of the Board of Trade, the Inspectors of Fisheries, the Fishmongers' Company, the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and several local committees on the eastern coast...The Royal party entered carriages, and proceeded...to the Drill Hall, the 3rd (King's Own) Hussars furnishing an escort...Order was maintained along the route by the 1st Norfolk Rifle Volunteers. At the Drill-Hall, where a large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled, another guard of honour, consisting of No. 5 Company of the 1st Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, was drawn up, under the command of Captain Fitch'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.