A Royal Celebration - Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

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18 Let’s Celebrate Royal weddings, visits, jubilees and coronations have often been a cause for festivities in Wigan Borough. As we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton we look back on some of these commemorations past. A street party for Prince Charles and Diana's wedding. Taken at the top of Belle Green Lane outside the Prince of Wales pub. A street party for Elizabeth II’s Coronation, Wigan, 1953. Crowds line Market Street, Wigan during Elizabeth II’s 1954 visit. Workers in the Mule Room, Taylor Mill, Miry Lane, Wigan. The mill is decorated for the Coronation of George VI in May 1937.
George VI and Queen Elizabeth meet disabled soldiers on Market Square, Wigan in 1938. Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary to Wigan in 1913. George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their visit to Wigan in 1938. Local people line the streets as Elizabeth II visits Wigan in 1954. 19
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