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FOR a smallish town, Huddersfield has had more than its share of royal visits.

All Our Yesterdays focuses this week on the present Queen’s first visit, on Thursday, July 26, 1949.

She was then, of course, simply Princess Elizabeth, aged 23, and had married Prince Philip in 1947.

Philip, granted the title the Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied her on her three-day tour of the old West Riding, and Huddersfield was the royal party’s first port of call.

The royals were received on the steps of Huddersfield Town hall by the mayor, Alderman D J Cartwright.

The Duke then inspected a contingent of the Light and Heavy Artillery Regiments and the 7th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in Ramsden Street.

The party was treated to a Huddersfield Choral recital in the Town Hall before visiting 8,000 children assembled at the Huddersfield Town football ground in Leeds Road.

The final Huddersfield stop was Learoyds textile firm at Trafalgar Mills, Leeds Road.

The Queen has since visited Huddersfield twice.

She returned to the town on October 14, 1971 to open two major feats of engineering, the Scammonden Dam and the Yorkshire-Lancashire section of the M62.

Then, on May 24, 2007, she visited the University of Huddersfield’s Media Centre and was chief guest for a Huddersfield Choral Society and Opera North concert in St George’s Square.

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