A special poem from the Stewartry has been sent to the Queen for her jubilee.
Paula Muir’s granny Corena wrote the poem about her experiences of watching the coronation on TV in 1953.
And she recently rediscovered it while knitting a special jubilee cardigan for four-year-old Paula’s daughter Avie.
Paula, from Castle Douglas, said: “My granny – Avie’s grandy – knits cardigans, particularly for my daughter, and was knitting her one for the jubilee.
“When my mum went round one night she was showing her patterns and she found this poem.
“She wrote it when she was working as a kitchen assistant during the Queen’s coronation from what she experienced on TV.
“My mum thought it was amazing and I thought it was the same and we thought it would be really good to try to share it
“The jubilee has a website so I’ve sent it through that and I’ve sent it to a couple of other places, including the newspaper she reads.”
Corena was born in 1937 and named after the coronation of King George VI that year.
Her poem reads:
One year I went to London it was 1953,
I saw a lovely lady but she never spoke to me,
Away she went in a golden carriage with the crowds cheering by,
And all her maids of honour were looking very shy,
Along came another carriage with a little boy inside,
He was smiling happily as he gazed from side to side,
His fair honoured little sister was staring with astonished eyes,
And never in her life had she heard such happy cries,
Queen Mother was with the children too,
All looking all so pretty dressed in blue,
And too the Royal Box they went,
To where the happy hour was spent.
