Event    From 2/6/1953  To 2/6/1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools - war damage

This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged....

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Coronation building

We really like this unusual plaque - so of its time with its calligraphic dec...

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Coronation decorations

Borough of Hornsey ERII 2 June 1953 Awarded to the residents of Bryanstone...

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Coronation railings

The railings erected to commemorate the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II w...

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Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens

This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.

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Queen Henrietta Maria

Queen Henrietta Maria

Born at the Louvre Palace in Paris on 16 or 26 November, daughter of the King of France.  Married King Charles I on 13 June 1625 and the couple went on to have two sons who became King Charles II a...

Person, Royalty, France

2 memorials
The King's Road

The King's Road

It derives its name from the fact that It was King Charles II’s private road to Kew and wasn’t opened to the general public until 1830. Mary Quant opened her shop ‘Bazaar’ here in 1955. Along with ...

Place, Commerce, Craft / Design, Royalty, Transport

1 memorial
Kennington Palace

Kennington Palace

Royal Palace. Records of the time indicate that Edward the Black Prince was building at Kennington from the early 1340s until about 1350. Between 1353 and 1363 further work took place and some of t...

Building, Property, Royalty

2 memorials
Catherine of Braganza

Catherine of Braganza

Queen of King Charles II. Born at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Portugal. She arrived at Portsmouth in May 1662. Because of her Catholicism she was an unpopular consort, and was attacked by the ...

Person, Royalty, Portugal

1 memorial
Saint Volodymyr

Saint Volodymyr

Prince, born in Pskov, now in Russia. Also known as Vladimir I of Kyiv and Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great. Became Prince of Novgorod in 970, seized Kyiv from his brother in 980 and consolidated t...

Person, Religion, Royalty, Russia, Ukraine

1 memorial

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Hotel Russell - Gladstone

Hotel Russell - Gladstone

WC1, Russell Square, 1-8

This ornate extravaganza, designed by the splendidly named Fitzroy Doll, was built in 1898. Ornamental Passions has a good post about the...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Nell Gwynne

Nell Gwynne

Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever.  Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived at Lauderdale House as the mistress of Charles II, where she dangled her first-born from a window to scare the King int...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous, Theatre

4 memorials
Jacob Cardwell Young III

Jacob Cardwell Young III

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial