Ceremony at Chantry Cottage: visiting magician, Alex Sanders and the high priestess with a sword, 23 April 1975

Photograph, 23 April 1975. Photographic print from the Bexhill Observer's coverage of the ceremony reported on 26 April 1975. In the temple at Chantry Cottage a young coven member in a dark robe stands by the fireplace, beside her the unrobed blond man the paper described as a black magician, with Alex Sanders in a striped robe partly hidden behind him. In the foreground, back to the camera, the high priestess holds a sword upright. The museum lists the print as 'Sword'. It matches the first picture in the paper's printed sequence, 'the black magician from Hastings, witches' king Alex Sanders and the high priestess'. The Observer identified the coven's high priestess as Betty Britton on 17 May 1975. Byline: Jimmy Burke. Bexhill Museum item 096. Print from the Bexhill Observer photographic archive at Bexhill Museum. Shown in UNSEEN: The Alex Sanders Archive at Bexhill Museum, Part Two, What the Town Did With It (26 August 2026), presented by Julian Porter of Bexhill Museum and hosted by Sharon Day for Alexandrian Witchcraft. Ceremony at Chantry Cottage: visiting magician, Alex Sanders and the high priestess with a sword, 23 April 1975. (1975). Bexhill Observer photographic archive, Bexhill Museum. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive. https://www.alexandrianwitchcraft.com/archive/bexhill-museum-096-ceremony-with-sword-chantry-cottage