Coronation 1953-style | Record May rainfall

1953 Coronation celebrations: Maypole at Kenilworth Showgrounds

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

69 YEARS AGO

The 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.

1953 Coronation parade: Conondale Maypole dancers.

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: School children marched.

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: Dominion float (CWA).

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: Woman who lived in a shoe float by Doyle's Mill.

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: Queens coach driver by Ed Sims, Janice Ward passenger

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: RSL float

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

1953 Coronation parade: Kraft Foods float

Kenilworth Museum, Mary Valley, Queensland 4574

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.