Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her platinum jubilee - DW News

[TexasTowelie]

Elizabeth II has been Queen of Britain for 70 years. The British adore her Majesty. The government has given the people a bank holiday to celebrate their monarch's platinum jubilee.

[DURHAM D]

1. I remember listening to her coronation on the radio. nt

[hedda_foil]

3. I remember watching it on television!

I was seven and thought it was awfully boring, but I watched it on our large screen 15" black and white tv anyway.

[DURHAM D]

4. We did not yet have any tv stations.

It was 4 -5 more years before that happened and reception totally sucked unless you had an antenna about 40 feet up.

That reminds me. I have been told there is a large tv antenna in my attic. I have not seen it. I asked an electrician to remove it and he said it would take a long time to take it apart and probably was not worth the cost. I guess it isn't doing any harm.

[SheilaAnn]

2. Television was still pretty new but they brought the largest one in the TV store to our school and

we got to watch it. Quite exciting as my mother's family was from England and Ireland.