Photograph taken at the time of the Queen Mother's visit with Princess Margaret on 15 July 1953, a month after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. These images are from the Andrew Chalmers collection of photographs on matters connected to or about its business.
The Salisbury tobacco auction floors, with their rapidly chanting auctioneers, were a famous feature of Salisbury business life. At the beginning of the 1960s, these were the largest tobacco auctions in the world.
