Diamond anniversary for Queen's visit

By Julian Burgess
Updated February 24 2014 - 12:59pm, first published 12:58pm

IT was estimated that 75,000 people lined the streets of Launceston on Wednesday, February 24, 1954, to see the royal cavalcade of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their final day in Tasmania.

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