Published on:
18
September 2012
The final showing of the exhibition The Diamond Jubilee 2012: The Queen and Clackmannanshire began last weekend in The Gallery, Gordon R McFarlane FBHI, Watchmaker & Jeweller, 41 Mill Street, Alloa.
This special exhibition has been created by Clackmannanshire Council Museum and Heritage Service to coincide with the celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne. It will run from 15th September until 6th October.
The exhibition looks at aspects of life in Clackmannanshire in the 1950s and beyond, including the opening of Greenfield House as Alloa Burgh Council's headquarters in 1952, as well as the Queen's visits to the county in 1963 and 1997, the latter being for the official opening of Alloa Tower.
Commemorative memorabilia from public and private collections will be on display, including a very rare souvenir programme and other material from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, various Coronation and other Jubilee programmes and a range of Royal literature.
Councillor Donald Balsillie, Convener of the council's Enterprise Committee, said: " This exhibition recalls what life was like in the county in the 1950s and I would encourage everyone to come along and see it. We are also hoping that people will bring along photographs and anything else which they might have, connected with Royal visits, other Jubilee celebrations and showing life in the county sixty years ago."
Neil McFarlane added: ""We are delighted to be hosting this exhibition at the end of a great summer of celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games. We hope that people will come in to have a look at the display of objects and programmes connected with the Coronation and earlier Jubilee celebrations, either for a touch of nostalgia or to see them for the first time."