For H.M. The Queen’s Jubilee in 1977 the residents of Chorleywood got together and made a patchwork quilt, with sewing bees combining to make up the whole. The centrepiece was the Royal Standard for which permission had to be sought.
It was quite beautiful, and was used by the BBC as a backdrop in the studio from which the presenters brought together the countrywide celebrations, including our Elizabethan Medieval Fayre on the Common, with herbalists, mead, mutton pies, and madrigals and music, even guess the weight of the pig!
The quilt was raffled, and apparently won by a UK resident, the proceeds went to the Jubilee fund.
Does anyone know where it went? Perhaps the BBC could use it once more?
S Harrington
Rickmansworth
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