Do your parents/ grandparents remember the last Coronation?

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Spent the afternoon with my dad (b. 1948). Kids fascinated that there was one telly in the street, and hoping they get a tin of free sweets at school too!

My parents do. My dad's family had a telly but my mum's didn't and they went to a friend's house to watch it.

Yes ... my mother (90) slept out on the Mall and can still remember the filling for the sandwiches she took .

DM does (she's 80). They had a tv at school. I guess they had the saying, but could go to school to watch the tv.

DDad always used to tell us how his dad got a telly for the coronation.

My mum does, she was about 14.

She lived in central London so was in the crowd somewhere.

Yep. My dad got some cufflinks as did I think most primary school children did in London - he was about 8 at the time and thought it was a bit odd.

My DM is 86 and she remembers it happening, but doesn't remember anything of the ceremony was her family didn't have a tv then.

My mum (b. 1947) used to talk about seeing the coronation from her dad's shoulders

My DM does, and she and DF were in the crowd, but only saw a small part of the procession. My DF's parents were one of the only people on the street who had a tv so all the neighbours came round to watch. TV's in those days were really tiny too.

She is looking forward to watching this one in full in the comfort of her own home!

DF remembers his parents rented a television especially to watch the Coronation. They had lots of visitors round and he remembers a room full of people all peering at a 12 inch screen. He spent most of the time playing in the garden.

They were both 10 at the time.

My mum didn't see it as they had no TV. She still has a tiny silver model carriage and horses that all schoolchildren were given in honour of the event.

My dad saw it 'with about 20 people sat round a 9 inch television' in his words. He said it was as much a novelty to see the sights of London as to see the Coronation itself - in those days, a working class Northern family such as his wouldn't have visited London.

My mum remembers it very fondly. A few families gathered together to watch at one of the houses in her street.

Yes. Although possibly it's mostly a memory of the first time watching television!

My parents were both born a few months after the coronation. Mil would have been fairly young so not sure how much she remembers.
My grandparents did - I remember taking to them about it a little bit when we were delisting some jubilee many years ago though not what they said.

My parents are dead but I remember them talking about how the Coronation was their first experience of watching something on telly- from a neighbours house in both instances. Apart from that not much comment as my dad despised the Royals and although my mum liked the Queen as a person ( what she gave away) she saw them as a bunch of chancers. Both parents were brought up in dire poverty in The Gorbals/East End of Glasgow .

These are fascinating!

Dad (b.1947) remembers their family shop was shut and his mum went round to the nearest neighbour with a television - which was two streets away. He said he and his brother just played out.

My dad was a baby so doesn’t remember but my grandma used to tell me how theirs was the only tv in the street so everyone came over to watch .

My granny remembers the last 3! She’s 95 and sharp as a pin.

I wonder if any of our parents/grandparents were huddled round the same tiny television?

My mum had a lovely photo of the coronation street party she attended aged 8 and loved remembering the names of the attendees. Then recently I thought hang on, she's 94 and I never twigged it wasn't the Queen's but George VI's! Stupid of me really seeing as I was born only 3 years after the Queen's!

i do, we had a fancy dress party in the church. I wore a pink bridesmaid dress with a paper crown
I remember being upset when the King died. Not a royalist, but my mum had promised to take us to the cinema, but it was closed.
We have friends who are now on their fourth Monarch as the were alive when Edward abdicated.

I remember my late dad (born 1944) saying how he remembered one day he wasn't allowed out to play one day and had to sit in his grandma's best parlour and listen to gloomy music with all the aunties. He realised later in life this was George V dying. For the coronation he remembers being packed into his neighbours living room with all the kids on the floor in rows as there was only one TV on their street. He remembers being given a mug and a piece of cake.

George VI not V

My great aunt went to watch and wave. I forget where. Sounds like it was a crazy day - v few toilets! 😆😆😆

My mum was 5. She went to London to see the parade, travelling from Newcastle, as my nanna was a huge fan of the royals. She remembers being moved to the front of the crowd and sitting on the kerb, just behind police officers.