This section of the 1934 Ordnance Survey map shows the sites relevant to the event. Near the top is Effingham Council School (later St Lawrence Primary) coloured green; its playing field, in which the Jubilee tree was planted, lay to the north of the building, being the plot numbered 215 on the map.
The Shrine, commemorating Effingham servicemen who fell in the Great War, is marked here by a red dot near the entrance from Church Street (‘Upper Street’ on the map) into St Lawrence churchyard.
The house coloured deep blue near the bottom of the map is Yew Tree House, the home of Mrs Nina (née Lambert) MacNair. Her rear lawn, where she carried out the judging of the children’s Fancy Dress competition, must have included at least the area coloured light blue and perhaps also extended over the plot numbered 199b. Beyond the latter was a larger area (plot 192a) containing a tennis court.
The Fete Ground was the area coloured pale green. In the Programme of Events the venue was named Pit Carn Field, as it also was in newspaper articles describing the event. Two years later, however, when Effingham celebrated the Coronation in 1937, the Programme then used the name Carn Pit Field, as also did newspaper articles describing that event. Meanwhile, ELHG has in the past occasionally heard residents refer to the site as Madge’s Field.
There are other issues relating to the location of the Fete Ground and to the names attributed to it. These are discussed on a separate page on this website bearing the title ‘Madge’s Field‘.