Coronation Festivities in Herefordshire

Wartime austerity ends here: Herefordshire puts on a show for the 1953 Coronation.

From an eccentric football match at Bishopstone (with one player who appears to be wielding a shotgun) to a tug-of-war across a brook at Peterchurch - there's certainly lots to see in this lengthy silent round up of Herefordshire Coronation fever.