What were you doing June 2nd, 1952?

[Keith Moody]

I was still at school in Dover, just getting ready to leave that summer to go to the Ramsgate Tech. College for catering. it was the first time i had ever seen Television. Castlemount School only had one TV, which was set up in the Assembly Hall and we all sat around on the floor to watch the Coronation. a wonderful experiance at that time, still trying to figure out how they did it. years later I used to carry a small TV with me when coasting on the MV. Goodwin.
keith moody
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[Jim Brady]

She became Queen in 1952 that is why it is 60 years 2012 .
Regards.
Jim.B.

[John Pruden]

i just thought there was a king on the throne and churchill was prime minister thanks lads i feel old now.JP

[j.sabourn]

Working in a butchers shop. 35 bob a week John Sabourn.

[happy daze john in oz]

She became the queen in Feb 1952 when George 6 popped off. On the day of her coronation in 1953 it P15ssed downday and I sat and watched it all on a very small TV about 12 inch or so. 25 years later and her silver jubille and again it P15ssed downday long again. So what will it do this year??????????????

[Frederick Lacey]

Just a bit of added info, John is right about February.

Sandringham. 6th February. 1952. The King dies peacefully in his sleep.

Kenya. 8th February. 1952. It was the Duke of Edinburgh who told his wife that she had become Queen.

London. 8th February. 1952. Elizabeth is proclaimed Queen on her return from Kenya.

London. 11th February. 1952. Queens Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Mary pay their respects to the late King, laying in state in Westminster Hall.

London. 13th February. 1952. The Duk of Windsor arrives to attend his brothers funeral.

Windsor. 15th February. 1952. King George VI was laid to rest in the vault of his ancestors at St Georges Chapel. Windsor today.



I guess we are having the 60 year celebrations now due to the weather might be OK, street parties and river pageants wouldn't be the same upto your neck in snow etc in February.

info above, Longmans Chronicle of the 20th Century.

Fred.

[alf corbyn]

i paid off from the Warwick Castle 1st of may 1952 and sailed on the Durban Castle 5th of june 1952, so i must have been on the shore staff for a month. fiddling

[Neville Roberts]

I was doing my last year in shiel road school at 14 .doe,s anyone remember getting a five bob piece from the Queens coronation they gave all the school kids one each I still have mine .

[John Arton]

I was most likely plodging in the sea in Torreveica, Spain, as we were living in Gibraltar at that time.
Not that I can remember much about it, not because my memory is going, its just that I was only 2 at the time.
rgds
Capt. John Arton (ret'd)

[Trader]

Working out the dates in my discharge book like Fred Lacey I was probably in Aden bunkering on the way to the Far East on the Bellerophon of Blue Funnel. We left Birkenhead 18th. May, ten days to Port Said then another four days to Aden was the usual timescale. Can't say that I remember it though, I suppose we got the usual two beers per day with the tops taken off so that we couldn't save them up for the weekend. I always remember it , it was Red Tower lager in bottles with the old crown cork tops.

When the Queen made the tour of the Commonwealth on the Gothic in, I think, 1954 I was still on the Bellerophon and we seemed to follow her home. We were in Colombo together, then Aden and through the canal. The Queen left Gothic in Malta and flew home. We docked on the same tide as the Gothic in KG 5 dock in London on 10th.May 1954.

Alec.