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Description: | These children are arriving at Temple Underground station to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. They are some of the 15,000 who gathered on the Embankment where special provision was made for them to watch the procession.
More than 26% of the country, 20.5 million viewers, watched the coronation on television sets, many of which had been bought specially for the occasion. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics Cityscape | Temporal: | 2 Jun 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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