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Royal Visit - 1954
Photo: Dennis Miller
Photo: Dennis Miller
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Item #: 10300
Item #: 10300
The Queen's motorcade moves along Market Street in 1954.
Comment by: Roy on 13th November 2018 at 00:30
I was stood around the corner at the entrance to John McCurdy Hall where the car containing the Queen drove in, i was 12 and at Thomas Linacre School
I was six at the time and stood at the top of Library Street with a school group from St John's Brick Kiln Lane. Funny in that I happened to be in the same spot very many years later when Ken Dodd road up Wallgate in a vintage car waving his tickling stick, he was opening a new shop in the Market Place, think it might have been Thornton's.
You don't see crowds like that anymore, not even for Royalty.
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