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30 PIECE FLitzls Well-Known Arbroath Man MR ALFRED COBB DIES AT 96

... included Bonnington, Pitcundrum, the Balmirmers and Salmondsmuir area. When he retired in 1937 — a recipient of the King George VI Coronation Medal—it was estimated that he had cycled 200,000 miles on his postal deliveries. He was an enthusiastic spare-time ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1973
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 330 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

The late Mr Macdonald

... father as convener, Mr Macdonald was secretary of the twn’s King George V Silver Tubilee celebrations, and of the King George VI Coronation celebrations, When Arbroath branch of the British Legion was formed in 1936, Mr Macdonald became convener of Youths ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1968
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 445 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DIED IN HIS SLEEP

... DIED IN HIS SLEEP After reigning for 16 years, George VI died in his sleep on 6th February, 1952, and was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, who was at Sagana Lodge in Nyeri, Kenya, with her husband Prince Philip, when she learned of ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1961
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

COLLECTORSS ITEM

... Doulton have produced a fine bone china figure of Her Majesty the Queen. Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Coronation, June 2, 1953, the figure is in a limited edition of only 750 copies. One of these collector’s pieces is now on sale at ...

Published: Friday 31 August 1973
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

SPLENDID RESULTS

... were very good. The first pictures seen in Montrose were of the funeral of King George VI in February, 1952. It was estimated that 2500 Montrose people saw the Coronation on TV, most of them in friends’ and relatives’ homes, and others in public halls ...

Published: Thursday 23 November 1972
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

INVERKEILOR . . . CHAPELTON ... – A DIARY

... A DIARY Friday: Thirty Years Ago What a great day this was in Arbroath 30 years ago. The 12th May, 1937: the Coronation Day of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Our memory of it is sharply focussed on a schoolboy’s day: the excitement of being caught ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1967
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Dye Mind Lang Syne?

... “m Py works manager. The gaily-decorated works of A. Nicol & Co. Ltd.,, manufacturers, Chalmers Street, for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. Included in the above photograph are Susie Kinnear, Miss Gilbert, Jean Petrie, Georgina Laing, Jean Lackie ...

Published: Friday 23 May 1975
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 384 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

A Transformation At The Former Melville Church

... Gardens marks the climax of a story that really began with a fire on Sunday, 18th April, 1937, the year of the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. On the previous Saturday night the Craig Players gave the second of two performances of Bridie’s ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1963
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

D’YE MIND LANG SYNE?

... Bert Lowe's dancing class who took part in the celebrations at Gayfield Park on May 12, 1937, to mark the Coronation that day of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Left to right: Nan Dinnie, Betty Robertson, May Stewart, Margaret Murray, Bert Lowe, Bob ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1974
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 412 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

An aerial view of Dowrie Works

... in 1931, and the plant for the manufacture of roofing felts and felt base flooring was opened in Coronation Year, 1937, and named after King George VI. Now time has caught up with Dowrie. When the decision to close the works was announced in the last ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1970
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The late Earl of Airlie, from a painting, 1

... of honours began in 1911 when he was a trainbearer at the Coronation of King George V. He accompanied the Duke of Gloucester on visits to Japan and Ethiopia; and in 1939 was with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their tour of Canada and the U.S. After ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1969
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 749 | Page: 7 | Tags: none