Trumpet Sounds For Whittington -- Mr. Edward Blundell, a trumpeter dressed in the style of the Whittington period, leading the procession to the Church. Excavation were officially begun to-day (Thursday) in the bombed Church of St. Michael Posternoster Royal, Collage Hill, E.C., in an attempt to find the tomb of Dick Whittington, Whittington, four times Lord mayor of London in the 14th and 15th centuries, is traditionally supposed to lie buried in the Church, which was shattered by German air raiders in 1944. October 06, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).