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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #36 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 11:31 GMT (UK) »
I was 5.  The only one of our neighbours who had a television didn't get on with the adults round about, so she invited all the children to watch the coronation - but not the adults.  So we saw it but our mother didn't.  The LEA gave every schoolchild a special teaspoon.  ;D
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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #37 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 12:21 GMT (UK) »
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I have a piccie of me in my costume and no you can't see it!

Oh, go on .....  ;)
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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #38 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 21:56 GMT (UK) »
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I have a piccie of me in my costume and no you can't see it!

Oh, go on .....  ;)

Go on  go on  go on!!!!

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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #39 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 22:47 GMT (UK) »
It's lovely to read all your memories..............

and I am so surprised to see that i am a 'babe' to you all,  :o :o
in fact i have just had to go and look up the actual date
 2nd June 1953

and can now safely say I wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye, well not for a few more months anyway  ;D ;D

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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #40 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 23:28 GMT (UK) »
I was 9 and I remember it rained.  And I remember wearing a beautiful red, white and blue dress with a wonderfully flouncy skirt,  sent over specially for the occasion by our American relatives - they had sent us regular parcels of 'goodies' throughout the war years and during the lean times afterwards, and probably this dress came in one of the last parcels.

At school we were all given celebration mugs, donated by a wealthy local mill owner, and also a long, thin purple tin with the Queen's head on it, filled with small Cadbury's chocolates, that could be used as a pencil case afterwards.  I still have it somewhere!!

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Re: Coronation Day 1953
« Reply #41 on: Wednesday 14 February 07 23:48 GMT (UK) »
I've still got a little red tin that we had for the Coronation.
Heaven knows what was in it, I can't remember, but my Father used it to keep his postage stamps in afterwards.
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