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Her Majesty's return |
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Returning from the Statue, Her Majesty Majesty started on another two
miles' drive, down Cock Street, Skinner Street, and School Street, where
she passed under the hardware arch into Waterloo Road, at the corner of
which she received from the assembled spectators a perfect ovation, by
Stafford Road, Stafford. Street, Princess Street, Queen Street, and
Railway Street, to the Low Level Station, everywhere greeted with
renewed applause, and everywhere acknowledging her reception with the
warmest courtesy, she reached the terminus of her long drive at the
Great Western Station.
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An early view of the statue. From an old
postcard. |
Lucheon had been prepared for the Royal party in one room and for the
suite in another. The Royal party remained in their room for nearly an
hour, their re-appearance being anxiously awaited by a very large number
of those who had witnessed their arrival earlier in the day. By this
time it had become pretty generally known that Her Majesty had conferred
on the Mayor the honour of Knighthood, and when the members of .the
Corporation had assembled on the platform, his Worship received their
hearty congratulations on the event.
Previous to Her Majesty's departure, the Mayoress, accompanied
by Miss Morris, Miss Ironmonger, and Miss Mander, were
introduced to Princess Christian, and presented to Her Royal
Highness, in the name of a few ladies of Wolverhampton, a very
handsome bracelet. At a quarter before four o'clock the Royal
carriages were brought to the platform, the band of the 8th
Hussars again played the National Anthem, and the train moved
off amid the cheers of the assembled multitude. |
Since the interesting ceremony of the Inauguration, an appropriate
railing, the design for which was approved of by the sculptor, has been
erected round the Statue. The cost of the railings was generously
defrayed by the Mayor.
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