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Maypole dance at Kenilworth Showgrounds and below the Conondale Maypole float. Top right the Queen's coach driven by Ed Sims, Janice Ward passenger. Middle right RSL float and bottom Kraft Foods float. Left Primary Schools march and second bottom left, the Dominion float (CWA). Bottom left, 'Woman who lived in a shoe' float by Doyle's Mill.
69 YEARS AGO
he Platinum Jubilee celebrations have been seen by many but who can remember how Kenilworth celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on 2 June, 1953? Kenilworth, like so many communities on the Sunshine Coast, celebrated in style. A full report on the events of that day may be found on Trove on https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78893337?searchTer m=%22Kenilworth%22. Recently the Kenilworth Museum has been lucky enough to be donated a series of photographs of the procession held on 2 June, 1953. These are included in a small video currently being shown at the Museum on every Sunday in June to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The video is also on the computer at the Kenilworth Information Centre.
RAINFALL KENILWORTH – MAY 2022 by Michael Pfeiffer Kenilworth received 408.1mm of rain for the month of May. This fell over 19 days during the month. This is the second time this year that the monthly rainfall records have been broken. The previous record rainfall for May was in 1938 when 331.7mm of rain fell. There are rainfall records for Kenilworth which date back to 1903. RAINFALL MOY POCKET – MAY 2022 by Graham Brennan May 438mm. Previous wettest May 2009 147mm. Last May 92mm. 21 year average May 80mm. Rain fell on 23 days, average 12 days. Autumn had 616mm, previous wettest 2010 487mm. Last Autumn 311mm. Autumn average 306mm. Total rain first five months 1945mm. Previous wettest Jan-May 2013 1170mm. Same period last year 530mm. Average 716mm. 12 month total end of May 2576mm. 20 year annual average 1196mm.
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The Mary Valley Voice
