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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 17/04/2005 Posts: 4,656
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Hi just a thought did anyone else happen to see the Queen on the day she was crowned. ?
I did at 5 pm the evening before I sat down on the pavement beside the kerb. with 2 friends .Our backs where to green park. We clapped every one and thing that evening . Before the route was sealed of. She is and was a beautiful woman also princess margeret.Like pieces of dressden china ,so petite..
I admire her but don't want her job ..no way... Just wondered if anyone happened to be there that day. Oh it rained.. ..Have a good day ...K  kittyc
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 09/10/2003 Posts: 3,407
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Yes, in fact I tell our 7-year old twins that I slept with their grandad when we were twenty and before we were married (not so dreadful these days but then, well . . . . . . you didn't really do it). Then go on to say it was on a hard pavement, in the rain with thousands of others almost opposite the Cenotaph. Can remember seeing the Queen of Tonga in her open carriage smiling and waving energetically.
We eventually married three years later. EileenAlana
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Hi Eileen . Now I know I'm not the oldesat inhabitant in town ,,just ,lol I was tring to think of the Queen of tongas name I thinkit was something like Saloto.. probably very wrong but I think it's something like that. she was so lovely smiling and waving and such a very tall lady... Thanks ..K kittyc
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Rank: Busy Member Joined: 17/04/2005 Posts: 4,656
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It was also the day that Everest was climbed.by Hilary ..It was announced on the loadspeakers .so that was more cheering... Happy day .. K kittyc
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 02/11/2006 Posts: 6,417
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my mum was a trainee nurse at Barts and slept on the mall, along with many ohther nurses and first aiders to tend to anyone who needed first aid, she was too far back to see the queen though, she said it was a very uncomfortable night with no sleep, but so exciting thats what got her through, being there when history was made
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I know I was but I don't remember it as I was only three! x ValF
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I was to busy enjoying myself at a street party. They dressed me up as Britannia, I was 4 at the time. PatEssex
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Watched it on my nans tv. She was the only one in the street to have one. Screen was 9" but the set was like a huge chest! I think the Queen of Tongas name was Solotie, she was a big hit with the crowd if I remember rightly. Love Jean Jeanellen
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Can you believe we went to London to see the Coronation............ on my aunt's TV!!! She was the only person we knew that had one. lol
We did drive around the night before to look at all the decorations though. It seems really funny to go all that way to watch a TV set but that's what we did - The screen was round and only about the size of a dinner plate and of course black and white but I remember it so well. We all sat there with the curtains drawn in as dark an atmosphere as possible - as everyone did whent hey watched TV in those days.
Thanks for reminding me. lol
By the way - I know she came to the throne in February 1952 - but the Coronation wasn't actually until June 1953 - it's only 59years from that event - will we have another celebration next year I wonder?
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 27/01/2003 Posts: 84
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I was in London and we watched it on TV in the dark with a screen about 8 inches square. The previous evening we went for a walk down the Mall and I remember all the people on the pavements with blankets and sleeping bags. The day after the coronation we went to Buck. Palace and I have a photo of me aged 6 in the spectator stands outside the palace. I also remeber beautiful decorations down the Mall, swathes of red, white and blue. I fell in love with the Royal Family after that and had scrapbooks full of their pictures! CarolfromCyprus
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Rank: Busy Member Joined: 09/10/2003 Posts: 3,407
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Yes, you are quite right and it is confusing, Yvonne, because the celebration is actually of the day of her accession to the throne and not her Coronation but all the pictures we are being shown are of her Coronation.
My husband's aunt had one of the televisions - huge 3-ft tall box with the small convex screen. EileenAlana
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 15/10/2005 Posts: 3,389
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I was 3, but I remember swinging on my Nan's garden gate watching a street parade, I got a Coronation Cup and Saucer, I dont have it now of course, I also remember my Mum going into the butchers with a ration book, there was sawdust on the floor. LindaV 
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 29/05/2006 Posts: 3,746
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I wasn't there because I lived too far away, but we all had the day off school and went to West Park, Long Eaton, where we had a fabulous party and were all given a coronation mug. There weren't many TVs around then but there were hundreds of us watching the coronation through the TV rental shop window :o)
Jackie xx
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 02/10/2011 Posts: 1,332
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Hi, I wasn't born then, but my FIL was on guard duty and MIL and her friend were in London. Unfortunately she is not in the mood to talk about it.
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I was only 1 year old then and i can't remember being told if my parents or siblings or both went!! maybe they did'nt!! Love and Hugs. Sparklebug. xxxx CardCrazyTeresa
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We just got a TV the day before the cornation. I remember it very well. carolynne
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Rank: Busy Member Joined: 17/04/2005 Posts: 4,656
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My goodness didn't expect so much from you.Memory is wonderful especially when it is jogged.. We 3 girls went back to my parents .they where publicans . As we where just so dirty and wanted to see the service wer all watched on tv .My mum asked a good customer to go check on us and he came down saying "fine there are three bodies up there flat out and very dirty". So that was an end to a perfect and memorable day K kittyc
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Rank: Busy Member Joined: 17/04/2005 Posts: 4,656
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Oh yes jeanellen .Thanks for telling me the Queen of tonga's name ..I knew it began with a S. lol.. A lovely lady.. all smiles . ...K kittyc
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Rank: Busy Member  Joined: 19/02/2006 Posts: 1,009
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I'm 41 so too young to be at the Coronation but I do remember the Silver Jubilee when I was 6. My Aunty (sadly no longer with us) bore a striking resemblance to the Queen and we went to a huge street party down her street. I remember there was a replica of the Ermine Crown in her display cabinet. We all wore our best party frocks, which in those days were always floor length, mine was my favourite colour pale blue with lace trim. I remember entering the dance competition and them lifting my hem to make sure I was actually dancing. We were giving a coin at school commemmorating the occasion. Thank you for this thread, I have loved reading all your memories and I don't know why but I have read most of them with tears trickling down my cheeks. Melanie x
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