Erection date: 20/4/1977
1952 - 1977
The Queen completed the planting of this silver bed on 20 April 1977 to mark the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
We imagine the serrated edge is meant to resemble a silver coin but it makes us think of a bottle cap.
Doesn't the inscription conjure up a picture of Betty kneeling down, digging in the petunias?
W1, Hyde Park
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen's silver bed
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. This wa...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen's silver bed
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
The site has been redeveloped for housing. What remains of the hospital are these entrance gate piers (at the north-east corner of the si...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
This, the foundation stone for the bridge, was laid in March 1897 and less than 5 months later the bridge was opened.
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
This building was originally the School House, begun in 1821 by Sir William Rawlins. From Spitalfields Life 2014 we learn that: Many lay...
Pte Sidney Godley, 1889 - 1957, awarded the first V. C. of the great war 23 August 1914, lived here. Loughton Town Council 2000
Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man". Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
Architect. Born Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton. His best known work was the former Wembley Stadium, designed with Sir John Simpson, which was originally part of the British Empire Exhibition. He was a pione...
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