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... LANCASTER A ROYAL BOROUGH? Coronation honour for Duchy capital CJHOULD Lancaster, created city by King George VI O his coronation be raised to the dignity and status a Royal Borough Queen Elisabeth her coronation T. Pape, M.A., F.A.8., suggested that ...
... through the City streets to the Giant Axe. That was the memorable year when, on Coronation Dav, by Command of King George VI the City’s Coronation gift was elevation to City status Royal Letters Patent. The procession was held September to celebrate this ...
... from the nfw tar first one in 1193 to the latest the ho one Which was granted by King Mackarel told the couct he George VI as a coronation was driving towards Lancaster Turnnvpr TNr.RF. honour In 1937, raising Lancas- at 30 m.pli in a brand new ■* liw ...
... THE COSTLIEST CORONATION 'THE Coronation has been the After the 1937 Coronation the costliest in British his- Ministry of Works held souvenir lory. Government expenditure sales. Nearly £ll,OOO was raised alone amounted to well over from the sale of chairs ...
... Coronation year memories. hopes for 1954 New Year messages from Lancaster’s leaders T EADERS of civic, religious, political, industrial, _ business, and professional life of Lancaster join with the M Guardian in wishing readers at home and abroad happy ...
... (BY NOEL GEORGE) DRITISH Coronations have *-* always been glorious and lavish affairs, but not all nave been decorus as the coronations of King Edward vn, King George V and King George VI. What happened in the year 1821 is typical. It was the summer of ...
... Carnforth children under the age of 14and a treat for the old folks were two of the proposals to celebrate the Coronation of King George VI. A I}d rate was to be levied to cover the cost of the celebrations raising a total of £BO. A well attended public ...
... A.). Title and dignity of a city FIFTY years ago Lancaster made the headlines when in the Honours List for the Coronation of King George VI the royal and ancient borough was created a city. Confidential representations to the Secretary of State asking ...
... cluding ox roasting and a disco. George VI gave the borough of Lancaster city status two days after his Coronation in 1937. Plans are being made for a permanent memento of the jubilee — possibly in cobbles, gravel or grass and incorporating the city emblem ...
... used for a Coronation — that of King George VI, who gave Lancaster its city status in the same year, -r Y”' ( PP M SR 7oy e i y,' ; ’.«S_.“ .:“ v ...
... signed by the 1937 pupils and one of the Royal Doulton cups which the authority presented to each child on the Coronation of King George VI, just after the school’'s opening in 1937. ‘“Many people in Morecambe will have been educated at the school and ...
... churches were asked to provide the last £1,923 towards the total cost of £12,000. * * * Plans to celebrate the coronation of King George VI were announced, including a 21-gun salute, dancing on Giant Axe Field, and a potato pie supper for the unemployed ...