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BY NORMAN HILLSON

... BY NORMAN HILLSON were the coronations of King George VI and our present Queen, and the State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. In these he demonstrated so natural a gift for theatrical effect, that a leading London impresario once declared the Duke could ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Queen Mary's recovery

... chills. As there are now two Dowager Queens, there may additional procession at next year's Coronation. King George VI established a precedent at his Coronation by ordering a separate procession the Abbey for Queen Mary, who drove from Marlborough House ...

FORMER ROYAL ORGANIST DIES IDr. Edgar Stanley Roper, who was organist, choirmaster and composer at the Chapels ..

... Orlandoi Gibbons. But for illness Dr. Roper would have established another recordthat of participating in four Coronations. He took part in the Coronation ceremo.A:es of King Edward VII, King George V and King George He was organist at Westminster Abbey for the ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1953
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SCRATCH II. NOT FOR ASCOT

... ASCOT SCRATCH 11., winner of this year's St. Leger, will not run in the King George VI. Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. M. Boussac's racing manager said in Paris today that Coronation V., last year's winner, Scratch 11. and the three-year-old filly, Astella ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1950
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RUTEY F T

... Amundsen crossed the North Pole in the airship Norge in 1926. The kidnapped Lindberg baby was found dead in 1932. The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place in 1937. The Germans in Tunisia surrendered in 1943. The blockade of Berlin by the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1993
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEXT MASTER'?

... considered, unless the failure of his Coronation opera, Gloriana. is held against him. Most likely candidate, however, is Sir William Walton (51). Not only did he compose music. a march and a Te Deum, for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II: he also wrote ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1953
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Follows Father's Precedent

... following the precedent established by her father on May 12, 1937, when she broadcasts on the night of her Coronation. On that occasion King George VI broadcast a message of thankfulness following the ceremony at Westminster Abbey and his dedication to the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1952
Newspaper: Shipley Times and Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

FOR NEW ZEALAND

... King George VI. Sir Robert Uchtred Knox was the Secretary to the Coronation Commission and Committees 1936 and 1937 has been secretary of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee since 1939. The Coronation Commission appointed for the Coronation of King ...

DPnid colochnatinne Brid celebrations

... proceedings to an end. QCoronation events for Edward VII were rather different. There had not been a Coronation for 64 years and then two days before the Coronation should have taken place, June 26, 1902, the King had to be operated on for appendicitis. Flags ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1993
Newspaper: Bridlington Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

TV

... at 10.40. “All Our Yesterdays.” Granada, at 7.0, recalls the early life of the late King George VI against the background of mounting excitement as his Coronation drew near, B.B.C's “International Come Dancing.,” at 10.25, features the last of four programmes ...

Published: Monday 07 May 1962
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Estimated takings

... union should get a share. said Mr Guthrie ' Prollts from each Coronation Cup game under present arrangements will be distributed follow: 25 per cent to each club 50 per cent, to the King George VI Memorial Fund. the Central Council of Recreation and the National ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1952
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

New President of Israel

... Jewish unit of the British Army which liberated Palestine from the Turks. He represented Palestine Jewry at the Coronation of King George VI. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 December 1952
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 1 | Tags: none