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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Prince of Wales's typhoid recovery

Prince of Wales's typhoid recovery

In 1871 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home, Sandringham in Norfolk. To everyon...

Event, Medicine, Royalty

1 memorial
Queen Eleanor of Castile

Queen Eleanor of Castile

Born to the King of Castile she was aged 13 when she married the future King of England, Edward I. It was a political, arranged marriage which seems to have been happy and successful as well, if 16...

Person, Royalty

2 memorials
St Elizabeth of Hungary

St Elizabeth of Hungary

Princess and saint.  Born either in the castle of Sárospatak, or in Pozsony, both in the Kingdom of Hungary.  She was married at the age of fourteen to Louis IV, the Landgrave of Thuringia, and wid...

Person, Religion, Royalty, Hungary

1 memorial
Eltham Palace

Eltham Palace

First mentioned in the Domesday Book, but the origins of this Palace are probably much earlier. It was given to Edward II in 1305, and was a royal residence until the 16th century. In 1933 the leas...

Building, Property, Royalty

1 memorial
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