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1937 Coronation Parade
Gallery of pictures that have come to hand

Carnival Quuen's float
The Carnival Queen's float

Group 1    FANCY COSTUME.    Girls' or Boys'.    Individual or Pairs.

Group 2    PATRIOTIC. Girls' or Boys'. Individual or Pairs.

Group 3    GROUPS OF CHILDREN, not less than Four.

Group 4    PATRIOTIC GROUPS, for Day or Sunday Schools only.

Group 5    LADIES' OR GENT'S - HUMOROUS   Individual or Pairs.

49
Pop Eye

Mr. A. Hanger
Entries 48, 49, 51 & 52
Entries 48, 49, 51 & 52

Group 6    GROUP OF ADULTS.

59
Nurse Cavell Memorial Tableau 

Rushden Youth Group, L.N.U.
float entry 59
Central High Street - note the crowd on the balcony of Lion Terrace (left)
Photo by Reg Glenn
Passing the Railway Hotel
The lady atop was injured quite badly when the top was toppled by catching overhead ropes at Irthlingtborough.

Group 7    ADVERTISEMENT CLASS.    Ladies' or Gent's. Individual or Pairs.

Group 8    BEST COMPANY TURN-OUT, Girl Guides, Brigades, etc.

Group 9    BEST COMPANY TURN-OUT, Boy Scouts, Brigades, etc.

Group 10    DECORATED MOTOR CARS OR MOTOR CYCLES.

73
"Up Narkover" 

Rushden & District Query Motor Club
entry 73

Group 11    WORKS GROUPS.

75
Britannia Rules the Waves

Messrs. Sanders & Sanders Ltd.






The picture is from a postcard - This won the class.

They were so pleased as John White entries had been winning everything and had been expected to win again!

entry 75
H.M.S. CORONATION - Front row 2nd from left is Margaret Short
76
Japanese Tea Garden

The Coxton Shoe Co.
entry 76
78
Hen-pecked and Family

Horace Wright

henpecked & family
82
Friends from the Zuider Zee

Messrs. Grenson Ltd.
entry 82
Eddie Savage
Tom Lack
Edie Harrison
Doris Dunmore
Hilda Brown
85
The Crown and Empire

Messrs. Walter Sargent  & Co. Ltd.
entry 85
87
Flower Basket
Messrs. John Cave & Sons Ltd.
entry 87
88
The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe

Messrs. John Cave & Sons Ltd.
Old woman who lived in a shoe
89
Milk Bar

Messrs. John Cave & Sons Ltd.
Milk Bar
90
Showboat

John White Impregnable Boots Ltd
Showboat
96
A Health unto Their Majesties

The Tecnic Boot Co. Ltd., Park Rd.










Note: there is no entry number displayed, but
AJ George had written the title on the back
Health unto their majesties

This photograph is unidentified but came with the above.

unidentified

Taken from a 1990 newsclip as Selwood's 1937 entry
but it was not listed in the programme?
Prestige brand
1937 carnival entry - Prestige brand 'known the World over'

Group 12    TRADESMEN'S TURN-OUTS.

Pictures from the Carnival - that came to us 2018
Also captioned as 1935, but might be they are 1937 pictures? We already had the float as 1937.

Please do you have any more photographs of this event?
If so please get in touch to allow us to copy


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