Coronation 1953 memories: 'Cold, wet, tired and happy'

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Coronation 1953 memories: 'Cold, wet, tired and happy'
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Hilary Carpenter, 89, spent 24 hours on the streets of central London at the Queen's celebration.

Ms Carpenter said she reached Trafalgar Square in the afternoon of 1 June 1953.

"It was very nice because they had stalls selling food and portaloo kind of things and if you wanted to go, the people round about you kept your space - they were all very nice. "They'd got the Mounties, they'd got the Gurkhas. Wave after wave of them and all these bands coming along - it was great.

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