ZUM4845238: May 05, 1953 - Three services” invasion” demonstration: A powerful invasion force made up of Royal Marines and units of the Regular and Territorial Army including a battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, were put ashore from ships of the Royal Navy on the beaches at Eastney, Southsea, in the course of” Demonstration Runeground IV”. The exercise has been planned to illustrate the entite technique of amphibious assault from the preliminary reconnaissance stages, through the attack against prepared defence positions to the ultimate consolidation of ground won by the invaders / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4845557: May 05, 1953 - Practice For Coronation Coaches: Al the carriages that will be in the Coronation procession on June 2 - including the State Coach - went for a practice drive along the route this morning. There was a precise of the assembly of coaches art Buckingham Palace and their dispersal at Westminster Abbey Vast crowds watched the rehearsal / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841536: May 05, 1953 - Westminster Technical College Students Prepare to Help in the Queen's Kitchens.: Eleven boys from the Westminster Technical College, Vincent Square, Are to give a hand in the Queen's Kitchens, on Coronation Day. the boys were selected by Mr. J. Vincent head of the College Cookery School - and he decides that it was a job for the boys - as it would probably prove too great a strain for the girl student / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841993: May 05, 1953 - Revival of 13th. Century Fair at Cheam.. Crowning The Queen. Even the stocks were to be seen at the 13th. Century Fair which was opened by Sir Sidney Marshall M.P. for Button and Cheam - at Crowning of 27 year old Mrs. Eunice Pather as Queen of the Fair. Keystone Photo Shows: - Mr. J.C. Robertson crowns Mrs. Pather as queen of the fair - at Cheam this morning. / Bridgeman Images