ROSEMARIE Emms will be enjoying a street part to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next week, just as she did to mark the Coronation 59 years ago.

Mrs Emms was a 13-year-old girl when she helped prepare Baldwin Street, Pill, for a Coronation party and, next Tuesday, she will once again be enjoying the company of her neighbours and friends to mark the Queen's 60 years on the throne.

Now living in Oaklands Park Drive, Rhiwderin, with her husband Ray, 72, Mrs Emms, 73, is looking forward to a party, which she hopes, will give the children in the street the same happy memories the party from her childhood did for her.

"I remember all the excitement leading up to it, the preparation leading up to it - the men made arches over the doors and the children made the flowers, the boys painted the kerb stones and the lampposts. I hope when they get to my age, they sit in their home and think 'that was a lovely day,'" she said.

The photograph from the party in Baldwin Street is a keepsake Mrs Emms cherishes and keeps in her dining room.

Mr Emms enjoyed a similar party in Robert Street for the Coronation, just four streets away from where his future wife lived.

Now, the couple are looking forward to the party being arranged by a committee of people in the street who are bringing everyone together to mark the special occasion.

"I'm looking forward to it to see these kids getting rewarded for their hard work - all the young ones are pitching in," said `Mrs Emms, a former nurse who went to Brynglas Secondary School.

The couple have a granddaughter, Isla, two, and daughter Abigail Scrimshire, 36. Their son, Dominic, a former Argus vendor, died in his sleep last July aged 36. He suffered with deep vein thrombosis for many years. Mr Emms, a former ship's plumber in Newport Docks and docker, added: "The Coronation was brilliant and I hope this celebration will be on equal par and hope all the kids enjoy it so when they are our age, they can say 'I was involved in that, it was a fantastic day.'"

Then and now

Pint of beer - 9p/£2.80

Pint of milk - 4p/50p

£1 in 1952 worth £24.34 today

Marriages (England and Wales) - 349,308/241,100

Divorces (England and Wales) - 33,922/119,589

Percentage of births outside marriage (England and Wales) - 4.8/46.8

Average age of mother at childbirth - 28.1/29.5

Days lost to labour disputes (UK) - 1.792 million/1.390 million