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Lancashire / Re: 1913 Bootle Royal visit
« on: Tuesday 20 August 13 16:08 BST (UK)  »
A medal dealer gave me some interesting background info on the King and Queen's visit to the North-West in 1913, but nothing definite on the medal itself. However, the archived edition of The Bootle Times newspaper for the day says 12,000 (bronze) medals were given out to Bootle schoolchildren to commemorate the royal visit, and the parade route from Gladstone Dock through the centre of Bootle and out to Walton, Everton FC and Knowsley was a festival of colour. The opening of the Gladstone Dock was one of the highlights of the visit. There's no mention of the medals being presented by the King on board the Mauritania, but he certainly boarded it. The medal may be worth much more to descendents of the the original recipients, rather than a medal collector.

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Lancashire / Re: 1913 Bootle Royal visit
« on: Monday 19 August 13 15:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ainslie
Thanks for this. The King and Queen were very busy during their time in the North-West. Do you know why those particular medals were handed out by the King on the Mauritania as mentioned by lisamc10? Had the recipients done something special? Tony

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Lancashire / Re: 1913 Bootle Royal visit
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 13:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rachael
I also have one of these 1913 coins / medals, which was given to me by a friend due to my Bootle (Lancs) connections and interest in coins. I cleaned mine and it looks like gold, but not sure it is gold. I'd like to know how my friend's grandfather got it - he's from Dundee so could have been in the merchant navy. Did you ever find any more information about it? Tony

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