The Queen's Jubilee

[amateur51]

Yes, to be fair, you do.

Even if they are usually a load of old codswallop.

I rest my case

[vinteuil]

Royalists are tiresome. Ardent republicans are tiresome.

But in the end the Royalists are more tiresome.

Lordy, this royal family we have is so boring....

[Norfolk Born]

Royalists are tiresome. Ardent republicans are tiresome.

But in the end the Royalists are more tiresome.

Lordy, this royal family we have is so boring....

True ... they haven't shot an elephant for ages.

[MrGongGong]

Royalists are tiresome. Ardent republicans are tiresome.

But in the end the Royalists are more tiresome.

Lordy, this royal family we have is so boring....

. If you don't approve of the Jubilee celebrations, why don't you organize your own festivities -

that would be great and paid for by those who do the whole "bless you maaan" nonsense

[Nick Armstrong]

In a Top Ten of unedifying discussions, the one being conducted on this thread will surely rank very high. If you don't approve of the Jubilee celebrations, why don't you organize your own festivities - I'm sure the more reasonable among us will refrain from using it as an excuse for the sort of childish ad hominem outbursts that have regrettably become a feature of this thread.

I must confess to having enjoyed:

Now that is posh - you had friends who in 1953 had a telly. We didn't even have friends who had electricity!

and

... I played gramophone records (remember those?) and then skulked around outside with a bottle of gin.

Still looking a pretty good plan for the upcoming events...

[Ferretfancy]

All these memories of the Coronation are frightfully suburban ! I watched it on a Philips projection TV, the first of its kind, at MGM's incomplete new offices in St James's Street. My dad and are were in the company of a very noisy bunch of Americans, but they did put on a good lunch. We watched the procession from the windows overlooking the street, and the ceremony in a small viewing room.
I was very monarchistic at 17 years old, and as the Americans treated the whole event as celebrity entertainment with sublime disregard to its solemnity, this annoyed me.

Nowadays I can see that they may have been in advance of their time. In some respects the most exciting sight was the newspaper sellers pushing through the crowds with the news that Everest had been climbed, and this gave me an ambition to see it at close range, if not climb it, and that has been fulfilled.

[Ariosto]

All these memories of the Coronation are frightfully suburban ! I watched it on a Philips projection TV, the first of its kind, at MGM's incomplete new offices in St James's Street. My dad and are were in the company of a very noisy bunch of Americans, but they did put on a good lunch. We watched the procession from the windows overlooking the street, and the ceremony in a small viewing room.

No need to show off Ferret!! We realise that you are Posh!!

[vinteuil]

My dad and are were in the company of a very noisy bunch of Americans, .

"My dad and are..." - a pertick'ly posh form of "My dad and I..." ???

[Ariosto]

"My dad and are..." - a pertick'ly posh form of "My dad and I..." ???

He's not that posh then ...

[Serial_Apologist]

In a Top Ten of unedifying discussions, the one being conducted on this thread will surely rank very high. If you don't approve of the Jubilee celebrations, why don't you organize your own festivities - I'm sure the more reasonable among us will refrain from using it as an excuse for the sort of childish ad hominem outbursts that have regrettably become a feature of this thread.

I'm finding it enormous fun!

I need a good laugh asmid these dispiriting times. Goodness knows, if I didn't have discussions like this to cheer me up, I'd probably go and withdraw all my money from the bank!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm finding it enormous fun!

I need a good laugh asmid these dispiriting times. Goodness knows, if I didn't have discussions like this to cheer me up, I'd probably go and withdraw all my money from the bank!

[mangerton]

I remember my father buying a television just before the Coronation. It cost around £90 - a fortune in those days. The entire street crowded into our small house. I was only 3, but I remember the visitors - not the broadcast itself.

I had a very similar experience. My parents bought a TV set* and invited the neighbours in. I was just 2, and have been told I sat on my mother's knee for the performance.

*This should probably be on the geek page, but it was the Sobell T143 shown here: http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/sobell/sobell.htm

It cost £72 - 9 - 0. As EA has pointed out, that was a lot of money in those days.

[cloughie]

True ... they haven't shot an elephant for ages.

You don't see many around - shows how effective they were in past times!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

*This should probably be on the geek page, but it was the Sobell T143 shown here: http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/sobell/sobell.htm

That's interesting. I think we had a Bush model, but one of the Pye models looks more like ours as I remember it.

[Serial_Apologist]

That's interesting. I think we had a Bush model, but one of the Pye models looks more like ours as I remember it.

Ours was a PYE, 8 inch screen, luxuriously expanded to a 12 inch by a thick magnifying glass attachment to the front of the screen. About 20 neighbours came and watched the coronation, many of them bringing their own chairs. I seem to remember that that TV lasted until my parents moved out of London in 1958.