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QUEEN VICTORIA DIAMOND JUBILEE
The celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee is very much in people's minds. Away in Worcester, the forty year old Edward Elgar is writing the "Imperial March" for her. The Queen had been crowned in Westminster Abbey on 28 June 1837, a month after her eighteenth birthday.
The Board of Guardians of the Union Workhouse had received an order from the Local Government Board to give additional relief to persons in receipt of Outdoor Relief for the week including 22 June.
The Rev. Lloyd Bailey Birkett, on behalf of the Westbourne committee making arrangements for the Festivities, asked the Guardians to grant permission for the Inmates to join the Festivities. The Guardians did so. They also said that Gape of Chilgrove must be informed that he must contribute to the support of his mother who is on relief.
The Guardians also resolved that the Workhouse Diet be altered with the sanction of the L.G. Board -
The Westbourne Jubilee Festivities Committee were planning that on 22 June there would be tea to all children attending the Schools, to those who have left school and are under the age of fourteen, to all widows, inmates of the Union and all residents of the parish over sixty.
A memorial of the day to be given to all children. Fireworks and a Bonfire. A cricket match under the auspices of Mr Powell. Races -
There is still to be seen on the end wall of Fairfield Terrace, Havant, a magnificent painted, terracotta plaque which commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It is thought to be one of two left in this country.
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Westbourne 26 Goodwood 45
Source: Ian Watson -