Coronation celebrations, The Rectory, Haughton

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Date:July 1911

Description:This postcard view shows a Coronation pageant held at the Rectory in Haughton during July 1911 to celebrate the recent Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 22 June 1911.

In the background is the large early Victorian Rectory with castellated bays which was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a housing development on Beech Close and Rectory Road.

This postcard was franked on 4 August 1911 in Stafford and sent to an address in Worcester.

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