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The Parish Magazine - January 2022 23
INUM YEAR!
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it and send a picture to
co.uk and we will share it
epartment for Digital,
(DCMS) has also
declared an extra bank holiday in 2022 for the
Queen's Platinum Jubilee. It will be on Friday 3
June. On the Sunday of what will be a nation wide
Jubilee celebration we, at St Andrew's Church will
be holding a special service to mark this historic
event. Rev Jamie also mentions this in his letter
on page 3. Look out for further details of this and
other local plans in future issues of this magazine.
YOUR MEMORIES
Also in future issues we will be looking at
the past 70 years and we would welcome your
memories of the Coronation in June 1953 and
other occasions when perhaps you met the Queen.
As a starter for this, here is a piece published in
this magazine on 20 June 1953 when the then
vicar of St Andrew's, Rev Sidney Groves, wrote:
The Coronation has come and gone, leaving behind
it the memory of a most august service, beautifully and
reverently performed, the deep and abiding impressions
May 2020: The Queen at the opening of Royal Open Air
Theatre, Scarborough. Speedfighter17, dreamstime.com
of the devotion and dignity of 'our most religious and
gracious Queen', and the hopeful sense that the nation has
turned a corner into a new and more firmly founded future.
One need say no more about the Coronation — every item
was faithfully recorded on the wireless and television, so
that all people could take part in the solemnity. For the
future the Church, as always, will exercise her priestly
function in offering her continuous prayer on behalf of
Queen and Commonwealth ...
The pre-Coronation services were well attended,
and the Church was well-filled for the Sung Eucharist
on the morning of Coronation Day, when there were 110
Communicants.
nation coach and horses won in 1953 by Gordon Nutbrown in a Reading Chronicle Coronation painting competition
Peter Rennie
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