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Has the queen ever been in Accrington? I know shes been in blackburn but wasnt sure about accrington , if so is there any pictures?

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near sure she was in accy in the 50s, around about coronation time, remember all the union jacks from peoples bedroom windows, was only a kid at time,so could be wrong, if she was there will be photos in the observer,which you can acess at the referance library, sorry best i can do.

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Before I grew older and wiser (i.e. before life experience) I was a young royalist who collected glossy 'royalty magazines' in the early 50's.

I distinctly remember the queen's (note lack of capital Q) visit to Accrington as part of her UK 'tour of ascension to the throne'.

I stood with my primary school mates, waving my little flag, at the bottom of Burnley Rd, as the Rolls sped past with the windows up. All I got was a quick glimpse of the duke.

I don't think that her car even made a stop in Accrington, so we were no more worth a visit then, any more than we are now, as Hyndburn

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I remember the Queen's visit .. :D Must haved only been about 400 yards from you Margaret .. was just a little up on the left after the junction of Penny House Lane and Burnley Road.

My memory was that she was in an open top car, and although only a fleeting glance, can remember what a beautiful complexion she had.

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ah so thats what it was,knew she'd been to accy, if only to drive through, see fcstanley i knew the "owd codgers" would come to the rescue.:rofl38:

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I was further en route - she must have had the Rolls top put back up after she saw your lot :D

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we must all have stood together
me in my little cubs outfit think we must have had time of school
st johns at the time
almost sure photos were in the obbie ;)

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:tongueout:silly: Cheeky.

Hey, Beechy ! I was in the Brownies, then the Guides at St. Johns' .. 'course you a lot younger than me, (well, would have seemed it at the time) but we probably walked in the same processions on walking days ! Sorry thread wander.

Sure someone on here will have a photo somewhere.

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I wasnt around if she was in accy, but i do remeber princess diana coming to church, visiting joseph arnolds i think it was:D

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my grandad worked there at that time and my aunty they always tell me about when she came to visit.

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you still got that rabbit willow?

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I remember getting silver spoons in 1977 for the jubilee, and ya know what iv still got em:D

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I was in Venice on Jubilee day 1977.
So glad I missed the palavar :D

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i remember that too, i'd of only been about 5/6 at the time, my grandad used to work there too

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The Queen visited Accrington when I was in the Territorial Army which was from July1954 to 1956 I was in the Guard of Honor Outside the Town Hall the date would probable be in 1955

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Seem to think the whole caboodle went up Burnley Rd?

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I think it was about 1953. I remember standing outside the town hall.

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It might have been in the first part of 1954. I was still at Peel Park (which I left in July 1954), and we were all wheeled out to stand in Burnley Road near the corner of Alice Street. I seem to remember it being quite a nice sunny day.

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Our Queen came up north on 13th April 1955, she arrived in Morecambe at 10.00 amand made her way to Southport calling at different towns en route. On 14th April she arrived at Darwen for 10.00am on to Blackburn when she stopped at the Mullard factory before going onto Accrington town hall for 12.35pm , then onto more towns before leaving from Colne at 4.55pm.
My dad was presented to her at Mullards and has saved his invite, menu from lunch etc. I inherited them in 2007 when he died.

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Her Majesty has certainly been to Rishton as I am just cleaning up a reel of film footage of it, recorded by one of my residents.

It was in 1967.

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clearly she has been here twice then.

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Well it certainly came along Blackburn Road, cuz I was at the top of Henry St. with my mother waving my little flag:D

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Na not Rishton surely, nobody goes to Rishton twice :D

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remember standing at corner of b/burn rd peel st with scouts seemed to be stood ages

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Oh i don't know,the Roebuck n Walmsley were great boozers way back.;)

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Interesting take on Her Maj on the Italian news this evening.

Juxtaposition with Maggie Thatcher -how Lady T wanted to be Queen back then but Her Maj was actually the Iron Lady, quite clever.:D

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Course they do john once in, followed very quickly by once out:D

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Oh come on Dave nobody stops there:D

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yes hm the queen came to rishton and the dunkenhalgh in maybe 1967-1968,the LET brought out a souvenier pape,r still got it at home

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How come alan? was that the year yeh got n inside loo?:D:D:D

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ah the good old outside toilet,we had an old tippler toilet out in the back yard till we had the grant done in 1972,you had to run the sink tap to make it tip over,modern science eh

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Its all right for you alan, when I was a happyrentice, I used to have to dig them out when we were doing grant jobs http://cdn.content.sweetim.com/sim/c...s/000203F9.gif

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When the Queen came through Clayton in 1967 we were taken from All Saints to stand along Blackburn Road with red, white and blue balloons. We were made to stand in order but by the time she came we'd moved round and half the balloons had burst so I'm not sure the effect was quite what it was supposed to be.