Fancy Dress Party for the Coronation in 1952. The picture is taken
in New High Street, and the Coronation Street party took place here
in front of Baker’s Yard (now built up). On the left is the present
No. 27, and the picture was taken from upstairs in the then
grocer’s shop opposite.
This pair of shops (now the Cotswold Collection) used to belong
to G. H. Williams (now on the other side of the London Road).
The royal event is probably the coronation of George VI in 1937.
The shop on the left has a union flag on a crest between the windows,
and a loop of bunting, and a printed banner reading “Long
may they reign”. The shop on the right has a strip of bunting
over the window, a clutch of union flags, and more bunting looking
which looks as though it stretches off across the road.
Above and below Celebrations outside the London Road workhouse
(which was just to the east of Gladstone Road) in 1910, marking
the coronation of George V. The men are seated to the left
of the main door, and the women to the right.
