I remember exactly where I was on 2nd June 1953; squeezed into a crowded room and glued to my Dad’s
12 inch TV screen while a sea of little noses was pressed against the window.
There were only two TVs in the street of seventy something houses and ours was the biggest.
The
platinum Jubilee celebrates the June date but of course references the
accession year of 1952 and whilst I may not be as excited about it all as I was
as a nine year old looking forward to the afternoon street party it is absolutely right
that today’s young people should be given something to remember.
There will be
beacon lighting in Lesnes Abbey park a week next Thursday (2nd June) and more
festivities all day on the following Sunday.
The Welling Round Tablers led by former Councillor Danny
Hackett are as you would expect keen to mark the occasion. Before the annual
BexFest to be held in Danson Park on 18th and 19th June they are to run a
competition for young people (under 18) to design a card to commemorate the
Monarch’s 70 years of service to the nation.
Be quick, you only have ten days.
The winner will receive a family ticket to BexFest
and the card will be passed on to Her Majesty.
Full details
of the competition for card designers may be read here. (PDF.)
