It is dominated by a first visit to the town of the young Queen Elizabeth.
1. Wiganers waited for hours to get a good viewpoint to see the young Queen
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3. The Queen accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh arrives in Wigan in 1954, the year after her Coronation
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4. Crowds waiting on Wallgate to greet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The new Queen was visiting to Wigan to open the John McCurdy Hall, which went on to form part of Wigan Technical College (Wigan and Leigh College) on Parsons Walk
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