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Key ceremony

... Lloyd-George. who was at that !time the Constable of the Castle. Earl Lloyd-George offered the same key to King George VI. during the Coronation visit to Caernarvon in 1937. Lord Harlech will offer the key to the Queen on an oaken tray with the words. Madam ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1953
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Old TVs and radios take sales by storm Wirelesses make waves South Wales Evening Post Friday September 23 1 994

... prewar sets are making top prices in the thousands today like the prestige Marconi 703 built in 1937 and launched in the George VI Coronation edition of the Radio Times Crackling Like HMV 902 it contained a radio and gramophone as well as the television and ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1994
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1283 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Welsh Guards 'in good form'

... Swansea and West Wales branch the Welsh Guards Comrades* Association at Swansea on Saturday told this story of King George VI. During the Coronation procession in 1937 the company Col. Higgon was commanding was posted around the Victoria Memorial in front of ...

Published: Monday 24 March 1952
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 458 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

1957 OBSERVER LEADER & FREE PRESS Fifteen WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE reforest Man’s Recollections Of Old Pontypridd ..

... the railway ran its first coach on a line constructed to the 'Bwl PRESENTED WITH MEDAL Batt was presented with a King George VI Coronation Medal 1937 by Judge Sir Clark Williams He is a past master of the Rhondda Lodge of Freemasons and was president of ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1957
Newspaper: Pontypridd Observer
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 2055 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

First youth torum success SOUTH WALES ECHO Saturday April 19th 1997 & Locsl Ngws 19 Youths intimidate residents ..

... recall but probably the most significant events particularly for servicemen stationed and around London the death of George VI and Coronation of Elizabeth II These events attracted a great buzz of excitement and activity for the Military Even for us humble ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1997
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1393 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

71iii;FliAL. NEAR

... previously in the annals of the Navy. There were at least five times as many frigates as at the review of King George VI on his Coronation, and a larger representation of every other craft. The Navy again seemed to all beholders Britain's impregnable ...

Published: Tuesday 16 June 1953
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1058 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

8 NEWS SOUTH WALES ECHO Thursday April 4th 1991 New units set up Help for abused children HELPING HANDS ARE

... exactly 11 years to the day he retired During his career Mr Grist covered the Queen’s wedding the funeral of King George VI and the Coronation of the Queen and organised picture coverage for all Thomson papers for the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff and the ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1991
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1228 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

20 THE EXPRESS THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 1986 1 Births NEWTON Brian and Lynne Congratulations Brian and Lvnnc on birth of

... Merthyr and Dowlais again attaining the rank of Sergeant He was the recipient of the King George VI Coronation Medal and also Police Medal and the Queens Coronation Medal He retired in 1954 after 32 years service and served for a further 10 years as a County ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1986
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 6044 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

KING GEORGE VI. WITH the George VI. Britain and the Comuiouweulth have lost as few have been before All us

... KING GEORGE VI. WITH the George VI. Britain and the Comuiouweulth have lost as few have been before All us this great family of many races grew to love his late Majesty for his siucerity and gentleness less than admired his unobtrusive strength and courage ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1952
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

death in his sleep of King George VI

... death in his sleep of King George VI the nation and the Commonwealth mourned the death, peacefully in his sleep early yesterday at Sandringham, of King George VI. the new Queen was flying home from Africa last night. Her Consort, the Duke of Edinburgh ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1952
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1109 | Page: 1 | Tags: none