I received a prettier cream coloured tin when I visited Cadbury's xmas about 1958or 9 Ann On 02/02/2011 10:47, Jean Wood wrote: > Our family had several of these - Coronation 1953 Choc tins = Cadbury's > > http://www.retonthenet.co.uk/vintage-chocolate-tin-cadburys-cadburys-queen-elizabeth-ii-coronation-souvenir-1953-1315-p.asp > > there may even be one still somewhere in the family - Mum used them for storing separately different colours of buttons! > > Jean > >> From: jstiles2@optusnet.com.au >> To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com >> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:11:39 +1100 >> Subject: Re: [B&S] Commemorative Coronation tin [was photo help] >> >> ? >> Many thanks Marion! From your very helpful reply, I have worked out that the >> children are holding Fry's Commemorative chocolate tin given out to school >> children in Bristol for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary. I >> imagine many of them must have become treasured possessions! An article and >> coloured picture of the tin can be seen here >> http://www.vanishederas.com/frys-commemorative-chocolate-tin-bristol---coronation-of-george-v-and-queen-mary-1911-7878-p.asp >> > From Jenny >> >> A link to the black and white photo of a group of Bristol children is here >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~becher/clatworthy_family_of_bristol.htm >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marion >> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:09 PM >> Hi Jenny >> >> This looks very much like a Coronation commemorative tin, which I think >> contained chocolate. They were produced for both the 1902 and 1911 >> coronations I think these may have been given out through the schools, as my >> grandmother >> definitely had one. >> >> Marion >> >> >> Jenny wrote: >> >> I have been emailed a charming photograph that was apparently taken in >> Bristol, probably Bedminster c1910 of a group of children that include Frank >> & Florence Hopkins. The children are all holding the same picture that >> appears to be of two oval portraits. >> > From Jenny, Sydney, Australia >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >