With 2023 set to be a Coronation year, Geoff Whittaker takes a look back at the last time the city saw a monarch crowned 📷
Mount Pleasant West, Preston 1950, Pic Lancashire Post.
After the killer London smogs of the 1950’s, the Clean Air Act was introduced, in 1956. This effectively banned the use of coal in urban areas. Not a moment to soon judging by the smoky atmosphere in the image.One bright spot in the post war gloom was the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Street parties were the order of the day and here we see a party on Whittingham Street, in Preston. Another point of note was the fact that the Coronation was televised.
Interestingly, the Coronation was a big driver of TV sales with just under 1 million five hundred thousand licences issued in 1952, compared to two million one hundred thousand in 1953. However, this was not the first Coronation to be televised. The fledgling BBC Television Service broadcast the Coronation of GVI in 1937.Millers Cycles off North Road Preston in 1953. Pic, Preston Digital Archive.
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