Plaque

Royal Free Hospital and Medical School Opening

Erection date: 15/11/1978

Inscription

This tablet commemorates the opening of the Royal Free Hospital and Medical School building by Her Majesty the Queen on the fifteenth day of November 1978 in the year of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the hospital.

The plaque is by the entrance to the Medical School.

Site: Royal Free Hospital (2 memorials)

NW3, Rowland Hill Street, Haemophilia Centre, Royal Free Hospital

The plaque for Elizabeth Blackwell is alongside an information panel, and over fifty plaques commemorating former students at the Royal Free Hospital.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Royal Free Hospital

Founded by William Marsden as the London General Institution for the Gratuito...

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Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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