DavidLowe published How Nottingham celebrated Coronation Day - Post readers' memories

HANDS up if you watched the Coronation on a nine-inch TV? You were in good company if you did because televisions in 1953 were pretty primitive by today's standards.The nine-inch model was more common than the 12-inch. Both were expensive, prone to breakdowns and to annoying on-screen interference.The 140 pupils of South County School, West Bridgford were invited to watch on the school TV. But because the screen was so small, they had to view in batches.Elsewhere, all around the country, people.