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