Fancy Dress Party for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. T
he 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 (later the Cotswold Collection (demolished to make way for the Ripples shop and now the Skipton Building Society) used to belong
to the cycle manufacturer G. H. Williams before he moved to a smaller shop on the other side of the London Road.
The royal event is probably the coronation of George VI on 12 May 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), marking
the coronation of George V on 25 June 1911. The men are seated to the left
of the main door, and the women to the right.
