Staffordshire’s Senior Museums Officer, Chris Copp, recollects the Coronation celebrations of 1953
with some help from Mr W H Bowers …
Although the Diamond Jubilee celebrations took place last summer, the original festivities took place not in 1952 at the time of her accession, but in 1953, celebrating the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in Westminster Abbey on 2nd June.


- Coronation Celebrations procession, 2 June 1953.
The Quickfit and Quartz science float, pictured outside the Swan Inn on Stafford Street.
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