Our Lady's Mirror
Autumn 1931
The procession of the Translation of the image of Our Lady from the parish church to
the new Shrine on October 15th 1931. Sir William Milner, the Shrine's chief benefactor
and one of the first lay guardians, is on the left holding a candle. The image was carried
by four deacons of honour, surrounded by four priest guardians - Fr Baverstock, Fr
Fynes-Clinton, Fr Lury and Fr Whitby. The deacon of honour nearest the camera is Fr
Frank Harwood, curate of Radwinter, Essex, and the one visible behind is Fr Frank
Burnett. He was a curate at St Peter Parmengate and St Julian's in Norwich; he served
RNVR and was chaplain to HMS Barham. He died when it was sunk by enemy action on
25 November 1941. The server on the right looking back at the procession is Leslie
Gray Fisher, sometime General Secretary of the Catholic League and wearing here the
collar of the Fraternity of Our Lady de Salve Regina, parish guild of St Magnus the
Martyr.
