Dr and Mrs C J Carey judge the fancy dress entries in the Square, which provided part of Northam’s festive air on Coronation day.

Youthful dancers at Appledore enjoying themselves in Marine Parade on the evening of Coronation day.
First prize for the best decorated street at Appledore went to the residents of Tomouth Terrace and Crescent. They were summoned by bugle at 6am on Coronation day for decoration duty and right well they did their work. As our photograph shows they erected a splendid Gothic arch of evergreens decorated with crowns and the Royal Cipher, flanked by life sized wooden Guardsmen in scarlet tunics and bearskins with rifles and fixed bayonets.
Gazette article dated 12 June 1953