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Denbigh Diary
A little Beefeater narrowly avoids being made mincemeat of by the Denbigh Queen’s car in the Coronation Day parade. But all is well and the celebrations continue.
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It’s Coronation Year – 1953 – and Denbigh is celebrating with a carnival (during which a little Beefeater is shunted by the Coronation Queen’s car but no harm done), a children’s tea party in the High Street’s Reading Room, distribution of Coronation mugs to pupils at Frongoch School and the cutting of the town’s Coronation Cake by the mayor and mayoress. The new town hall opening and St Bridgid’s School pantomime are also recorded, as events of note early in the year. It’s Coronation Year – 1953 – and Denbigh is celebrating with a carnival (during which a little Beefeater is shunted by the Coronation Queen’s car but no harm done), a children’s tea party in the High Street’s Reading Room, distribution of Coronation mugs to pupils at Frongoch School and the cutting of the town’s Coronation Cake by the mayor and mayoress. The new town hall opening and St Bridgid’s School pantomime are also recorded, as events of note early in the year.
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