The Coronation Day celebrations for the present Queen Elizabeth II were a welcome distraction from the hardships following the end of the war for these families in Drummond Street, Astley Bridge.
There was less bunting than for the coronation of George Vl in 1937, presumably because rationing had only recently ended
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