Coronation meant a good old knees-up!
DIAMOND OCCASION...toasting the Queens coronation in 1953.
THE 60th anniversary, this week, of the death of King George V1 heralded the commencement of events to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Rewind to that time, and this picture, a year later, is what the culmination of those landmark months was – a good old Coronation knees-up.
Near the centre at the front there, older Shields folk may recognise Harry Faulkner, who later managed the old Havelock Inn in Havelock Street at Laygate.
Many will almost certainly know his son, Harry, who has lent the snap and who had the popular butcher’s shop in Stanhope Road in the town, which is now run by his son, Stuart.
Remarkably, Harry Jnr, as a boy, was actually among the crowds in London on Coronation day, but more of that in a minute.
To go back to his dad, in his day he was a veteran licensee, both on Tyneside and in Durham
This picture, from 1953, was actually taken during his tenure of the Londonderry Arms, the first pub ever to be built in Seaham, in 1830.
Next to him in the snap is his wife, Nancy. Also in the group are Nancy’s sister, Kitty; Harry’s oldest sister, also called Kitty, and granda, George Reveley.
Over the years, Harry Snr would also have the Bus Inn, in Trimdon Street at Sunderland; the Shipwright’s Arms on Scotswood Road in Newcastle, and the Locomotive Inn at St Helen’s, Bishop Auckland.
He came to Shields, to the Havelock Inn, in 1957 and had the pub until 1964.
So how did young Harry get to go to the Coronation?
Well, the trip was a gift from his grandma.
“I had passed the 11-Plus exam to go to Ryhope Grammar School, so it was a present for that,” says Harry who, on the day, was among the crowds that thronged The Mall.
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