The Day The Queen Came To Subiaco...(1954).
In 1954 Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Australia. The couple visited Western Australia including Perth and country towns for 5 days.
The role of school children featured in the visit around Australia. There was a planned children's review at the Claremont Show ground for 20 000 school children. However, it was cancelled due to the danger of contamination from poliomyelitis.
As a result special provisions were made for school children, hospitals, institutions and families in nearby areas could give greetings to the Queen and Duke. There were two routes on two different days that would enable them to see the Queen. The first was on Tuesday, March 30 from Government House to the Perth airport (along Canning Highway and Great Eastern Highway).
The second from Thursday, April 1 from Hollywood Hospital to Government House. The route taken included Subiaco, (along Thomas Street, down Rokeby Road past Subiaco State School and King Edward Memorial Hospital along Railway Road, Roberts Road back along Thomas Street, King's Park into the city). A map is copied below.
The school children from the Subiaco State School, and the patients and nurses King Edward Memorial Hospital and Princess Margaret Children's Hospital lined the street to see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh drive past. The procession slowed down when they went passed by so could see the Queen and Duke.
The articles and photographs are from Trove, the database of the National Library of Australia. 
A happy patient at Princess Margaret Hospital sits on a bed and waves a flag as the Queen and the Duke drive past. 
Some patients and nurses of King Edward Memorial Hospital line the route of the morning progress outside the hospital. One wears a decorated hat.
