BACK in the summer of 1953, residents in the Waterfall area of Blackburn had a party to mark the Queen’s coronation.

The celebrations began with a women’s football match and was followed by a street party.

Sheila Berry had just become a teenager, and she remembers the whole neighbourhood – long since gone – enjoying a happy day.

“All the mothers made buns, cakes and sandwiches for the party and Mr and Mrs Swarbrick from the corner shop provided the ice cream,” she recalls.

A local girl was also made the Waterfall queen for the day, but we don’t know who she is.

Sheila has lent us a photograph of the women’s football team after their game, played purely for laughs, on the Griffin ground.

Lined up for a team photograph are, back from left, Mrs Crane, Mrs Wardingley, Mrs Moody, Annie Robinson, Mrs Byrom, Mrs Pickering, her mum Lily Berry who was one of the goallies, with Mrs Ashby.; and front from left, Mrs Moody, ?, Maurenn Garvin, Annie Hindle, Mrs Cotteral and ?.