Celebrations in the Carfax (©Toby Phillips Photography)
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Giovanni Spano at the Carfax bandstand. Elsewhere, there was a host of street parties and celebratory events, with an impressive array of classic cars parking up in Steyning, while The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh popped into Cranleigh’s Big Lunch event and tried a Coronation chicken pie. Bank Holiday Monday saw the launch of the Big Help Out, a national initiative to help boost volunteering . In the following pages, we look back at how Horsham town has celebrated the coronation of a monarch in the past. From barrels of beer and plum puddings for the poor, to big band nights and street parties, we’ve always known how to throw a party. But our look back through the archives, done with the help of historian Jeremy Knight, raises one question: Why were there no King Charles III commemorative mugs for the schoolchildren?
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