A community radio station presenter has recalled the “fabulous” photographs he took on his Kodak Box Brownie camera as a schoolchild at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.
As the nation gears up for the King’s coronation on May 6, Jeremy Hoare has spoken to the PA news agency about his vivid memories from the 1953 celebration, which he attended with his school, then Winchmore Hill Secondary Modern, at the age of 12.
“Lots of schoolchildren were sent to Turnpike Lane and picked up on buses, and then we were taken to the Victoria Embankment where there was a place

