ABBEY DECORATIONS
3.15 P.M. EDITION
DISMANTLING ORDERED. POPULAR SIGHT WITH VISITORS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. > (British Official Wiroltss.) Received June 7, 11.55 a.in. RUGBY, June 5. From an early hour this morning there was a constant stream of visitors to take the last opportunity of seeing Westminster Abbey in its Coronation setting. Up to last night over 200,000 people hail visited tho Abbey. The work of dismantling the Coronation decorations within the Abbey begin next week, but it is not expected that it will be reopened for normal services until the middle of August. Nearly al! the articles used in the decorative scheme of tile Abbey have been sold to collectors. The chairs on which the peers and distinguished foreign guests sat are being bought by those who occupied them at the Coronation service. An earlier cable appears on page 7.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 8
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143ABBEY DECORATIONS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 8
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