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Coronation memories...
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We were living in two attic rooms having just returned to Belfast from England. The people who owned the house invited my parents down to watch the coronation on their television which had a screen about the size of a paperback book.
I didn't see any of it until it turned up on Pathé News in the cinema a while later.
Anyone else have memories to share?
I didn't see any of it until it turned up on Pathé News in the cinema a while later.
Anyone else have memories to share?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We had a party in the school behind our house Sandy. At the tea table I watched a plate of cakes being passed around and wanted,more than anything else in the world,the pink Fondant Fancy. It got closer and closer until the little swine next to me nabbed it. I cried buckets and was taken home. Twelve years later he asked me for a date but I had never forgotten and couldn`t forgive.
can't remember what happened at school, or street party, but as we did'nt
have a tv, mums friend across the street, invited us (3) over, and another
family.
The house was a two up two down in the middle of a terrace, cobbled street,
so you can imagine the front room was quite full, there was 5 in her own
family.
A very small black and white screen, in a long freestanding wooden box,
(coffin with a screen) The kids all had to sit on the floor, grownups all stood
behind in a semi circle for the whole performance.
The lady missed a lot of it as she was giving out sandwiches, and cold drinks.
I do have still, must have been from school, a small glass tankard with the
coronation motto on it.
have a tv, mums friend across the street, invited us (3) over, and another
family.
The house was a two up two down in the middle of a terrace, cobbled street,
so you can imagine the front room was quite full, there was 5 in her own
family.
A very small black and white screen, in a long freestanding wooden box,
(coffin with a screen) The kids all had to sit on the floor, grownups all stood
behind in a semi circle for the whole performance.
The lady missed a lot of it as she was giving out sandwiches, and cold drinks.
I do have still, must have been from school, a small glass tankard with the
coronation motto on it.