Many similar children’s celebrations also incorporated some element of fancy dress with parades or competitions taking place on Gosbrook Road, Foxhill Road and Grange Avenue among others. A combined effort by the Emmer Green Social Club and the Emmer Green branch of the British Legion managed to entertain 670 children with fancy dress, a bicycle parade, sports and tea. There are numerous reports of communities and streets putting on coronation parties specifically for the children of the area. The celebrations were not just limited to the elders of the town however. It was noted that some of the attendees of this party could remember four coronations taking place, "though they had to think hard to remember the names of the kings and queens"! The Standard writes that "together, two old age pensioners, Mrs. The older residents of Reading also enjoyed themselves at a party in the Forbury Gardens, despite the poor weather. The Standard also writes that the popularity of watching the event on television led Reading to "have been almost a deserted town", but one that thankfully came alive in the evening when the celebrations started. Knight, who praised the modern science that enabled the event to be shared in such a way. The Reading Standard reported this as a great success, a sentiment shared by the Deputy Mayor, T. Along with television sets, large screens were put in place to broadcast the event. A number of television sets were set up in Reading town hall and "enabled more than 1,000 old age pensioners to join in the celebrations". It has been well documented that the coronation was a significant moment for television broadcasting, and Reading was no exception to this. Although described as the biggest and noisiest of the gatherings, it seems to have been ‘a prelude only – to dancing, fun and games that were to be continued in the street throughout the evening.’ The largest party was said to have taken place in the Cattle Market where a feast "was spread out among the pens". The planned party of 30 people on Park Grove required some ‘last minute improvisation’ as it was relocated to the inside of a garage in order to avoid the rain. Despite the inclement weather on the day, the festivities pushed on. Those who were noted included Maureen Emmett of Callington Road and Betty Turner of Sherwood Street. The Reading Standard reported on several streets in the town crowning their own ‘Coronation Queen’. owners arranging whole-day parties for their friends and neighbours". Even for those who opted to stay in and watch the coronation on television, there was a sense of togetherness with "T.V. The community-centric nature of these celebrations is emphasised as "Nobody was forgotten". It lists that "there were processions and parades, carnivals and displays, sports and games, and hundreds of teas". Despite the actual event taking place in London, the Standard was quick to move their focus on to the people of Reading and their personal celebrations of the event. Quite understandably, the coronation was front page news on the Friday 5 June 1953 edition of the Reading Standard. As befits the largest town in the Royal County, various celebrations took place in Reading to commemorate the occasion. FIXED: Weather Watcher was not releasing object handles used by the DL.On Tuesday 2 June 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey. FIXED: The Daylight Remaining tooltip item was not calculating correctly when the sunrise and sunset occurred on different days FIXED: If using the wallpaper map feature, Weather Watcher will automatically update the URLs for the selected wallpaper map(s) when new maps are installed at startup CHANGED: Made some changes to the DL.EXE application to resolve Internet connection issues ADDED: An "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" checkbox has been added to the Advanced -> Internet section of the Weather Watcher Options window to automatically import the current IE proxy settings The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, and detailed forecast as reported by The Weather Channel, severe weather alerts from NWS (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station.
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