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Memorial

Flagpole Festival of Britain & Jack Dimmer VC

Memorial: Flagpole

Erection date: 1977

Inscription

This flagpole, provided by the forest industry of British Columbia for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was re-erected by the Provincial Government of British Columbia in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Site: Festival of Britain & Jack Dimmer VC (3 memorials)

SE1, Jubilee Gardens

Our photo shows the 3 memorials in a line, from the back: flagpole, Dimmer, Skylon.

Photos of this stretch of riverside just before the arrival of the Festival of Britain at A London Inheritance.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

Information Subjects commemorated

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Festival of Britain

'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...

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Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II.  This wa...

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Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on t...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

Information Created by

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British Columbia

forest industry and Provincial Government.

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

Information Also at this site

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John Dimmer VC

This plaque was unveiled exactly 100 years after the deeds that won Dimmer th...

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Skylon

Plaque laid flat in the ground, to the west of the flagpole, to the right in ...

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