CORONATION ORNAMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 9

CORONATION ORNAMENTS

M FINDING NEW USES GOLD CARPET FROM ABBEY LONDON, May 22. “The office of works has only a few more lions left for sale,” is the official reply to those wishing to buy lions from the tops of the Coronation masts in Pall Mall. Altogether 140 of the 200 lions have been sold for £1 each. However, 66,000 cushions from the official stands are for sale. Tenders for the demolition of the stands were received the day after the Coronation, and work has begun at Constitution Hill. It is expected that the demolition will not be completed until August, when London will again look like itself. The gold carpet laid in the Abbey may reappear sectionally in Teheran or Canberra, for it will probably be cut up into pieces and sent to British embassies and consulates. The future of the blue carpet in the annexe is undecided. It may be sold, or, like the golden carpet, cut up and used in official buildings. Tents are being struck, and 1200 men are removing the traces of the encampment of 26.000 troops in TTydc Park and Kensington Gardens, but the effects will remain visible until the grass grows next year. Articles left in the Abbey by guests include 13 assorted dress spurs. 12 pairs of spectacles, a sword-belt, orders and medals, innumerable gloves, scarves, cloaks and wraps. A peer left an inflated air cushion in a mauve leather case, and another left a coronet which was soon reclaimed.