STREET TEA PARTIES
CORONATION DAY IN LONDON. « EAST END CELEBRATIONS.. LONDON, Jan. 2. On Coronation Day it will be impossible for traffic to pass down any but the main streets in tne East End of London. All the side streets will be filled with tables, around which the children will be having tea partly Flags, bunting, and streamers will be hung from house to house, "gold” crowns will be fastened over doorways, pianos will be out on the pavements, and there will be entertainments in the gutters. Pracically every side street in the East End has already started to make arrangements for it., celebrations. in each, a small committee of residents has been set up to collect 2d or 3d a week from every house in the street. In many of the streets the treasurer of the fund has posted the amount collected in his window so that al] the streets can see how they are getting on and compare their fund with that of the j neigh bour ing streets.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 9
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171STREET TEA PARTIES Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 9
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