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Royal visits to Birmingham

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh were in Sutton Coldfield in August 1957 for the Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Park. There is a delighful picture of the couple sitting in the back of their Limo while at the petrol filling staion in Eachelhurst Road, Walmley in the Sutton News Archives. Not technically in Birmingham at the time of course but only a 100 yards away!
 
Re Pedro post 120 - you would have thought they would have had to polish their wellingtons for the inspection ! Haha. Not sure when it was exactly, whether 1945 or 1946 but the king and queen and the two princesses came to Birmingham and I believe other cities, soon after the war. I remember going with my mom and saw them in the car In Corporation Street
 
Just to inform everyone that this coming Saturday 17th at the Toby formally the Park House Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield there is a showing of the visit of HM Queen Elizabeth to the Scouts Jubilee Jamboree.
Tickets are free via eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-showing-the-1957-world-scout-jamboree-tickets-391241201967.
The film will be shown twice, once at 3PM and then again at 4.30PM.
Hope to see you there.
 
hi ian i have also posted your above info on our events and meet ups section of the forum for you

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The Queen visited the Birmingham Hippodrome. I think it was 1955 or 1954,. I was about 12 years.We were a troupe of girls who belonged to the Shirley Thompson's Dancing School situated at Wash wood heath and we were there specially to entertain the Queen to celebrate her Coronation. I shall always remember how we were all dressed in red white and blue satin tunics and top hats and sequin capes. As we danced and sang "All the Queens Horses and all the Queens men, for a brief moment I lost concentration and glanced up at the Balcony to see Queen Elizabeth sitting there watching us with a radiant smile on her face. My goodness it was such a long time ago, but my memory of this even is still vivid.
 
The British Motor Trading Corporation is shown in the 1921 Kellys as at Yardley Road, apparently on the eastern side close to the junction with the Coventry Road (by the Swan pub). The only map I have is 1913, which shows no large factory there.
 
This commemorative token of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1874 was found in our garden in the Ideal Village when I was a child. The houses were built in 1910.
 

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This commemorative token of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1874 was found in our garden in the Ideal Village when I was a child. The houses were built in 1910.
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Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visiting Gillott's pen factory, Birmingham, England, 1874.​

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The attached is the route of a Royal Procession in Birmingham 1919, my initial research leads me to believe it was King Georage V and Queen Mary opening of the Children's Hospital . Am I correct??
 

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The attached is the route of a Royal Procession in Birmingham 1919, my initial research leads me to believe it was King Georage V and Queen Mary opening of the Children's Hospital . Am I correct??
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Yes, and a visit to Bournville village.
Queen Mary is walking with a parasol with George Cadbury, acknowledging three people including Mrs Twten, who is wearing a dark dress with a fine lace collar, in front of almshouses. The King is walking behind with the Countess of Fortescue and Lady Brooks, followed by Sir David Brooks (Mayor of Birmingham) and others.
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I was wondering who Countess Fortescue was, and looking at Wikipedia assumed she was the wife of 5th Earl Fortesque (though could not see from that why she was with the party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Fortescue,_5th_Earl_Fortescue). But then noticed in the article mentioned that she had a child on 17th may 1919. Yet on 21st May 1919 (the exact date of the visit) she was accompanying the queen.
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Sadly the child, her first, the Hon. Diana Margaret Fortescue only lived until 6 April 1920.
Does anyone know who the (probably mis-spelt) 'Mrs Twten' was?
 
King George V and Queen Mary walking pass a massive crowd of women workers at Cadbury's, Bournville, followed by two women and an officer. The younger woman may be Lady Brooks, Lady Mayoress of Birmingham, and the older women could be Countess Fortescue, Woman of the Bedchamber. (Might answer your query, mikejee )


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13 Dec 1940. King’s visit.

“LESS than 12 hours after the third big raid on the Birmingham district, the King made a tour of the City and its environs yesterday with Lord Dudley, the Regional Commissioner. Arriving by car, the King walked with the Lord Mayor (Councillor Wilfrid Martineau) through some of the worst bombed areas.”

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Pictures of the Royal Visit in April1941 from the Birmingham Gazette.

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Everywhere she went the Queen had a smile for war workers. On the left she is inspecting Wolverhampton A.F.S. women in Calthorpe Park. They told her they did not find the work too heavy.

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On the right the Royal car is leaving the park amid the cheers of girl guides.
 
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