Coronation

A Memory of East Ham.

Can anyone remember Coronation Day in Stokes Road? It's so clear in my mind but I have only one photo. We had a long table in the street . My sister was dressed as a Dutch girl and the boy next door called Lenny Moss was a jockey but his outfit was made of crepe paper and it split. I was dressed in baggy trouser and a crop top with a veil but I hid behind the curtains because of my bare tummy. We had our own Queen, Pauline, across the road, and then after she was crowned we all walked around the block. In the aftenoon it poured with rain but there was a man playing the piano in a tent-like building, I think it finished with a party in the church hall in Roman Road. The daft part was that my dad was in the Coronation because he was a mounted policeman but it was never mentioned that we should go and watch it. I really can't see those sort of parties ever happening again. Good memories.