"We have newspaper cuttings from across the Bristol and national press showing pictures of the king and queen and events from the day – it just shows the level of interest there was across the country," said Rachael Gardner, Senior Archivist at the University of Bristol.
"The stories focus on the famous people you could see at the procession but also on people like Granny Mary Jarrett, who was 104 years old and was given special permission to ride in a taxi as part of the procession, and met the king."
"There's also a lot about how the citizens of Bristol were so well behaved and only a handful of wallets went missing that day so everyone should be very proud of themselves.
"It was specifically requested by the king that there wasn't a costly decorations scheme but the mayor wrote in the press asking everyone to decorate as freely as possible – it really involved the whole city," she added.
