Secondly, there was the Silver Jubilee Number
(Appendix List No. 103)
brought out on May 4th. 1935 This issue deals with the preliminaries to
the celebrations. In it there is a photographic record of the lives of
the King and Queen; the Queen’s jewels and the King’s horses,
dogs and motorcars; the effects of floodlighting on famous London buildings;
leading personalities; the decorations; the opening of the Silver Jubilee
season of Grand Opera at Covent Garden and paintings to be seen at the
Royal Academy. A coloured section looks forward to the Service of Prayer
and Thanksgiving to be held in St. Paul’s on the following Monday,
May 6th, Accession Day.
The cover of this issue, a bright mass of colour, is an imaginative reconstruction
of the Jubilee procession with banners, bunting, Yeomen of the Guard with
halberds and just a corner of the Royal carriage coming into view drawn
by the famous Windsor greys.
This is issue number 5011 vol. 186, pages 715-778, measuring 37 x 26 cm
and cost two shillings.