This would be the celebrating the Coronation of George VI (Edward didn’t make it to his Coronation – some affair of the heart I’m told!). Interestingly though it took place on the same day that Edward was supposed to have his Coronation – I suppose they’d got the Abbey booked and couldn’t cancel! They certainly knew how to celebrate in those days though!
This photograph shows the same scene as the next with the same name, if one looks at the shadow of the chimney pots on the shop roofs you can be certain they were taken on the same day and within minutes of one another. When zoomed in you can see even the people looking out of the windows above are the same people.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (also included in a cd produced by Derick Pearson), thanks to Derick Pearson for dating these images.
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