Buying Coronation souvenirs, London
Feb. 26 Commonwealth visitors to London are buying Coronation souvenirs to take back home with them. Here is Miss Mary King, assistant at a souvenir shop in Trafalgar Square showing a tea tray decorated with a colour picture of the Queen to Mrs A Taylor and her son, Jimmy aged 11 and daughter, Judith aged 8. The Taylors come from Bay of islands New Zealand. Coronation souvenirs for overseas visitors: just as soon as the date of the Coronation was announced manufacturers started to make souvenirs and now Gift and Souvenir shops in London and other large cities are already doing a brisk trade, especially with overseas visitors, who, although they will not be in England for next year's Coronation, want to take souvenirs back home with them. At Ley and Ley, souvenir shop in Trafalgar Square, there is a constant stream of visitors mostly from the Commonwealth, for the Coronation Coach and the Crown of England, trays, brooches and other souvenirs in connection with the great occasion
