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Description: | The decorative canopy at Charing Cross Underground station is prepared for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, on 2 June 1953. The Victoria Embankment was reserved for 15,000 schoolchildren who came to watch the procession.
London Transport prepared to move an estimated three million people into London to watch the coronation procession. It also organised the decoration of its stations to welcome the new queen. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics Transport | Temporal: | 1953 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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