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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 1
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. This was the first jubilee to be celebrated since the middle ages. There are various Berkshire entries in the book. On this first page, we read about how Reading celebrated the Jubilee - with a volley of gunfire, and the liberty of 200 Danish prisoners of war.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 2
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. On this page, the rest of the celebrations in Reading are detailed. Among the events, Mr Jesse of what was Castle Hill House (now Yeomanry House, our next door neighbour), provided a feast of meats, plum puddings, strong beer and punch for all his tenants.
The page goes on to record the celebrations in Abingdon.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, page 3
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. This page concludes the celebrations in Abingdon, detailing the Mayor's feast for 'respectable' inhabitants, and cakes being thrown from the old County Hall. Events in Aldermaston, Beech Hill, Easthampstead and Farley Hill are also mentioned.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 4
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. This page mentions fireworks and gifts for the poor at Binfield and Hungerford, together with mention of events at Faringdon and Hinton Waldrist.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 5
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. There was a traditional ox-roast in Maidenhead, an evening ball in Newbury, and a musical march was enjoyed in Wallingford. Swallowfield and North Stoke (not strictly Berkshire) also record their loyal activities.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 6
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. This final County page ends the Wallingford day, makes brief note of Woodley and Yateley (Surrey), with bell-ringing and dancing in Wokingham.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 7
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Windsor is treated separately from the rest of Berkshire, because of its central place in the festivities. This first page of the report lists the various military and royal participants.
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Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 8
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. This second page for Windsor records the ox-roasting - and sheep-roasting - visited by the Queen, and the service in St George's Chapel.
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The Royal Celebrations 1809-1821
Celebration of the Jubilee, Page 9
Date: 1810 | Reference: BRO Library
This book was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations for George III. It records how the Jubilee was celebrated throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The last page for Windsor describes the illuminations in the town.
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Ticket for entrance to George IV’s Coronation banquet at Westminster Hall
Date: 1821 | Reference: WI/D110
This lavish pass for the banquet at Westminster Hall was issued for the coronation of George IV on 19 July 1821. The banquet for 300 guests included soups, meats, fish, fowl, vegetables, jellies and creams. The accounts for the coronation were presented 2 years later. It had cost £238,000 – roughly £8m at today’s prices.
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Ticket for entrance to George IV’s Coronation banquet at Westminster Abbey
Date: 1821 | Reference: WI/D109
This pass was issued for the coronation ceremony itself, at Westminster Abbey on 19 July 1821. George IV’s coronation was arguably the most extravagant staged for a British monarch. Virtually everything but the crown jewels was made new for the occasion – robes, decorations, even an awning made of Russian duck feathers to cover the procession of the coronation party between the Abbey and the banquet at Westminster Hall.
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Poster advertising an ox-roasting and other celebrations at Windsor to mark George IV's Coronation
Date: 1821 | Reference: WI/D162/2
Windsor had hosted the royal family for part of the 1809 Jubilee, as seen earlier. To mark that event, the townspeople had erected subsequently an obelisk for George III in Bachelor’s Acre, a piece of open ground in the town. Twelve years later, this later feast was held on the same spot to celebrate George IV's Coronation.
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