please empty your brain below
We had our first TV for the Coronation - I also got a cardboard cut out model of the State Coach - which was almost impossible to build - as was not good with scissors and glue in them days (7 yrs old !!)
cheers
mog

Mystic Mog | Homepage | 02.06.08 - 10:57 a.m. | #

I'm ashamed to say that although I've lived in London for thirty years, I've never been into the main body of the Abbey, although I have visited the free bits and the crypt. Every year I make vague plans to go in January or February, when it isn't overrrun by tourists and every year I don't quite make it. After this, maybe this year I'll make it.

Incidentally, the crypt contains one of the oldest stuffed parrots in the world. Worth a visit for that alone.

AlyxL | 02.06.08 - 11:29 a.m. | #

That fan vaulting. Wow!

Did the tourist bit to the Abbey a few years back.

Maybe next time I'm in town. . . In Jan/Feb

Bronchitikat | Homepage | 02.06.08 - 12:35 p.m. | #

There's a nice virtual tour of the Abbey here.

http://www.request.org.uk/main/c...tabbey/
tour.htm

Oliver | 02.06.08 - 7:52 p.m. | #

I too watched the Ceremony on a tiny Black & White T.V. courtesy of a relative. Dozens of neighbours crowded round the wooden-doored cabinet and watched the fuzzy picture. I went with my mum & sister to Hastings on the train; everyone else was going in to London, we were the only people travelling out. It rained! Never been to the Abbey either,

Surrey Girl | 02.06.08 - 9:20 p.m. | #

I went in for first time in ages last year and was amazed again at the interieur It is definitely worth a visit.
The proximity - in death - of the enemies Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots always intrigues me . Somehow I had thought that after her execution Mary would have been discreetly buried elsewhere

elaine | 02.06.08 - 10:04 p.m. | #

I watched the Coronation at the next door neighbours house, on a 9 inch screen Bush TV,(model Bush TV22 I think, bakelite case.
It was nice to have the day off from school.
Pity it rained in the morning.
I have not been inside Westminster Abbey for many years.

John | 02.06.08 - 10:35 p.m. | #

A long time ago, when I worked in the Westminster area, I would sometimes wander into the Abbey for a few quiet minutes at lunchtime. There weren't nearly so many tourists in those days, so it was free entry and people could come and go as they pleased.

I once watched a craftsman replacing the gold leaf on a statue. He ran a little brush through his hair, picked up a little square of gold leaf with the static, and placed it in position. I wonder how much gold ended up in his hair.

Great Aunt Annie | 02.06.08 - 11:25 p.m. | #











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