Her Majesty’s ‘Invitation to Youth’ broadcast from Capetown in 1947 on the occasion of her 21st birthday, has been printed on a card together with a reproduction of a photograph of the Queen seated at the microphone before making that famous speech and copies will be distributed as a Coronation memento to all children at Westward Ho!

The day’s celebrations commence with a united service at Holy Trinity Church at 9.15am. To conclude the day a gala evening, which will include olde-time and modern dancing, games and a fancy dress parade, commences in the Kingsley Hall at 8pm. 

The old people of Westward Ho! have not been forgotten. A coach outing has been arranged for them for the Thursday after the Coronation and Mrs M D Rowe and Miss V Lewis, of Lewis’s Café will be carrying out the invitation extended by their late mother, Mrs H Lewis, for the party to take tea at the café at the conclusion of the tour. To commemorate the Coronation, Westward Ho! Women’s Institute are planning to plant two flowering trees in the autumn. 

To help raise funds, a large cake was given for competition by Mrs W Powell. Bideford and District Cricket Club, whose playing pitch is at Westward Ho! made a donation.

Chairman of the Coronation Committee is Mr J Wickham and Mrs N M Gibbs is secretary. 

The full Gazette article is dated 29 May 1953