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msssssmmßAClNG PETOSKI can give royal trainer Dick Hern his first Coronation Cup since Bustino won it for him ..

... royal trainer Dick Hern his first Coronation Cup since Bustino won it for him in 1975 at Epsom tomorrow. Petoski, like Bustino, owned by Lady Beaverbrook, showed astonishing improvement last season to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 165 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

man in the crowd

... carried out a major study of the Coronation of George VI that year and repeated the exercise for the Coronation of the Queen in 1953, Between the two Coronations there were studies on the Royal Family at war, the death of George VI and the ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1977
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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

Rifle awards

... Rifle awards Mr. and Mrs. Smith hold identical medals for rifle shooting: the Coronation of King George VI Commemorative Competition Medal, sponsored by the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs; and runnersup medals in the Yorkshire Miniature Rifle Association ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SMALLS OF GOSFORTH Smiled

... fell off the fence.” Two years later, in 1937, the children at Princess Louise Road School were celebrating the Coronation of King George VI amd Queen Mother. “There was dancing in Ridley Park,” said Miss Willis. “There was a bandstand then, with music ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1977
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LOCAL HISTORY i 50 YEARS AGO |

... programme of the Old Deer Coronation Day celebrations was the bonfire, the work of the Boy Scouts, at which a very large crowd gathered. It was lighted by Mr R. Jamieson, who is well into his 99th year. MEDALS: Seven Coronation medals have been conferred ...

‘Royal’ surgeon and war hero

... Marshal Sir Peter Harding to Mrs Neely commended mander in 1950 and Air Vice-Marshal in 1955. He attended the coronations of both King George VI and the present Queen. In 1959 he retired and pursued his interests in golf at the Royal Eastbourne club, politics ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 176 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

The Gazette looks back

... ~ . coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The festivities dominated the news with a round up of events from the town and villages. To commemorate the event more than 700 pensioners aged over 70 years received newly minted King George VI twoshilling ...

... from the top: Coronation Day in 1937. Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, with George VI and their daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. Then, the smiling image of the “Queen Mum’’ so familiar today. Below that, Queen Elizabeth and George VI win the hearts ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 434 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Many Royal Returns 60 years on

... Philip at Westminster Abbey. 1948: Birth of Prince Charles. 1950: Birth of Princess Anne. 1952: King George VI dies. Accedes to throne. 1953: Coronation. 1954: Major tour of Commonwealth. 1956: Suez crisis. 1957: Sputnik, first satellite, goes into space ...

Published: Monday 21 April 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

In at the beginning By BRIAN SHEWRY

... Winsor attended Westminster Abbey Choir School for five years. He sang at the coronation of King George VI in 1837 and along with the other choristers was given the official Coronation Medal. Just 40 years later, incidentally, he was awarded the Queen’s Silver ...

Published: Friday 22 April 1983
Newspaper: Littlehampton Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ONLY 2

... 59th ye¢ succeeded his ¢ only nine years old. Duke of Norfolk had sible for the coronati ward VII, and his St and for the coronation George V, in 1911 sent Earl Marshal w for the State funeral in 1936, he was only He was the first to inadequacy at that ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 6 | Tags: none