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  • Military representatives from all over the Empire took part in the Grand Parade to celebrate sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign in London. The members of the 1st Volunteer Battalion came from towns and villages in Breconshire. From 1,000 men serving in the Battalion at the time, only the 22 smartest soldiers were selected. The men lined the route near Westminster Bridge for eight hours and the procession itself took two and a half hours to pass. This picture was photographed by Charles & Bell, Brecon.
A detachment of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The South Wales Borderers, representing the Battalion at Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Procession in London, 22 June 1897
Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V at Llanbedr-goch, 1935
  • Poster for the one day visit of the Jubilee Air Display to Llandrindod Wells on 5th June, 1935. This was a flying display which toured Britain in that year to mark the royal jubilee. It was modestly billed as 'the biggest and best show of all times' and offered 'parachute races, every modern thrill, fly at 250 miles per hour'. The flying field was attached to the Rock House Hotel and was the site of the former racecourse.
Jubilee Air Display poster, 1935
  • The centre of Newtown, Montgomeryshire in a postcard view of the early 1900s. This is looking along High Street towards the Cross Building, erected to mark the 1897 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Newtown, c. 1902
  • An elaborately decorated bicycle in Welshpool to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
Diamond Jubilee decorations, 1897
  • A parade in Welshpool to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, including men of the Montgomeryshire Militia, the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, and the South Wales Borderers.
Diamond Jubilee parade, Welshpool, 1897