A Blyth man has described the day he photographed the Queen on the day of her coronation back in 1953.
Charles Wilson, now aged 87, covered the Queen's Coronation as a photographer for the Royal Mechanical Engineers magazine and took over forty pictures of the young monarch, Prince Philip and Winston Churchill on June 2, 1953 in London.
In a fascinating tale, he recounts how he ended up in position on the Mall as the Queen, then still yet to be crowned, passed by in her famous golden carriage and how the situation very nearly never came about, as well as how he only ended up with a handful of snaps after many of his negatives were stolen on the day.
