Summary

Colour photograph of HRH Princess Alexandra in conversation with Exhibition Chairman Mr Freeman R.G. Strickland, OBE, his wife, and Deputy Chairman, Mr K.L. Christian out the front of Centennial Hall, taken on the occasion of the centenary of the Buildings on 1 October 1980.

This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files.

Physical Description

A colour photographic print on a page of a photograph album. The image depicts HRH Princess Alexandra in conversation with Exhibition Trustees Chairman Mr Freeman R.G. Strickland, OBE, his wife, and Deputy Chairman, Mr K.L. Christian out the front of Centennial Hall, at the centenary of the Exhibition Buildings on 1 October 1980. In the background are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and the Chairman's wife, Mrs Strickland. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

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