THIS Friday sees the Queen Mother reach the grand old age of 100.
But just over 71 years ago, a lifetime in itself, the Queen Mother, or Duchess of York as she was then, was in Studley visiting the Horticultural College at Studley Castle.
The picture below depicts preparations for that special visit on July 18, 1929, with a banner raised by John Thompson, who owned the Bell Brewery in Alcester Road at the time.
Since then the brewery, seen on the left, has been demolished but the building in the middle is now the Bell pub opposite Bell Lane.
The photograph was kindly supplied by Andrew Lamb, who is the great-grandson of John Thompson and is now a photographer for fashion magazine Vogue.
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