FIFTY years ago this week, huge celebrations swept the country as people marked the Queen's coronation at Westminster Abbey.

The Coronation was on June 2, 1953, and as part of the festivities, the residents of Yvonne Road in Crabbs Cross decided to get together.

Here the children of the road are seen in a picture taken on the day behind the Star and Garter pub, looking east over what is now developed land.

The picture was loaned by Hilary Panting (nee Prescott) of Himbleton, near Droitwich, who used to live at 9 Yvonne Road.

Mrs Panting remembers many of the residents going to a neighbours' to watch the Coronation on one of the few televisions in the road.

Some of the other names she remembers of those on the picture are her sister, Annette Prescott; Pat, John and Jenny Watts; Robert Prescott; Michael and Archer Andrews; Michael and Gregory Blundell; Martin Green; the Dyson boys; Susan and Michael Taylor; Irene and Brenda Davis; Christopher and Wendy Nicholls; Robert Hare and Val and Wendy Foster.

Mrs Panting also has a similar picture with all the adults from the road.