"MERRIE ENGLAND"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 14

"MERRIE ENGLAND"

JUBILEE GLAMOR STREETS A BLAZE OF COLOR LONDON, Feb. 6. The "Merrie England" of romantic tradition will be recalled throughout the length and breadth of the country this summer. The celebration of the Royal Jubilee will restore the color and gaiety of bygone days. livery city, town and village will be emblazoned with flowers, flags and bunting. Buildings will be floodlit. There will be parades and pageants innumerable. Women's fashions will recall the famous beauties of past days. The celebrations will centre around May 6. which is to be a public holiday. FLAGS AND FLOWERS EVERYWHERE Already many councils have drawn up elaborate plans for the decorations which are to transform drab streets into bowers of flags and flowers. Schemes already approved in London, for example, include :■— Marylebone.—£lo,OOQ is to be spent on a .scheme, the centre-piece of which is to be tin Empire street, beflagged with tin' colors and emblems of all the Dominions and Colonies. Westminster. —Whitehall, the E.u.bankmeut, and other main thoroughfares are to be made gay with buntin-, al a cost of between £BOOO and £IO,OOO. . Bond Street.--The imposing display for the Royal Wedding is to be repeated, on a bigger scale, at a cost of about £2OOO. Many individual firms are making their own plans. For' example, nearly £IOOO is to be spent on the embellishment of the Criterion buildings in Regent street. It will be the same in the provinces. Thus. Brighton has already voted £6OOO and Bognor £3OOO for decorations and illuminations. Oxford City Council yesterdav voted £ISOO for' illuminations and fireworks and a treat for children. Birmingham is to have a great parade of troops and aeroplanes. The official period for the celebrations is a fortnight, but it is understood that most of the street decorations—which are to be made weatherproof—will remain for a week longer. Already manufacturers of flags and bunting are working overtime. The flood of home orders will not reach its peak for some weeks yet.