15344/3MORE than 100 flags used to dress the streets during the Queen's coronation in 1953 are to go on display at the Trowbridge Museum.

The flags, which Graham Alford, 66, of High Street, Seend, has kept in black bags in his attic for decades, were snapped up by the museum when it discovered their history.

Mr Alford has had the flags since the West Wiltshire District Council gave them to him in 1956. He used them to decorate Trowbridge town hall when pop stars such as Billy Fury and the band T.Rex played at the venue.

He said: "The council had no use for the flags. It left them up for a couple of years but then had them in the organ loft."

He said he thought the large collection of flags would now be of interest to the public.

He said: "Rather than put them on the rubbish dump I thought I would donate them to the museum."

Clare Lyall, of the Trowbridge Museum, said: "We were delighted.

"They aren't that rare but the historical link to the Queen's coronation makes them very interesting."

The display is planned at the museum some time over the next two years.