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Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Categories: Royalty

Our picture shows Queen Elizabeth II in the River Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant which took place in the cold and pouring rain on 3 June. Diamond represents 60 years.

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Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

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2012 Commemorations - Blackheath

The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackh...

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Bomber Command Memorial

The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...

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Cutty Sark Gardens - Opening

The plaque was unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen to mark the opening of Cutty...

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Diamond Jubilee QEII - Jefcoate tree

This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroug...

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Ealing Town Hall restoration

{Beneath an emblem reading "Queen's Diamond Jubilee 60":} The restoration of ...

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Diana Princess of Wales

Diana Princess of Wales

Born Lady Diana Frances Spencer in Norfolk. Married the Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981, divorced 28 August 1996. Died in a car crash in Paris with Dodi Fayed. Abov...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous, France

12 memorials
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on Monday 20 June 1887. In George Gissing's 1894 novel 'In the Year of Jubilee' characters discuss whether to participate...

Event, Royalty

13 memorials
Queen Mary I

Queen Mary I

Born at Greenwich Palace. Daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. When her sickly brother, the Protestant King Edward VI died in 1553, Mary was, by normal accession rules, next in line...

Person, Royalty

1 memorial
Moated manor house

Moated manor house

See the memorial for all the information.

Building, Property, Royalty

1 memorial
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

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Harold Hodges
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Queen's Theatre - Long Acre

Queen's Theatre - Long Acre

WC2, Long Acre, Queen's Theatre

As the close-up picture shows, this corner boasts three plaques: a Mercers' maiden (see the Mercers' Company), an award from the 'Brick D...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Armenian Church - Armenian plaque

Armenian Church - Armenian plaque

W8, Iverna Gardens, St Sarkis Armenian Church

This plaque is written in classical Armenian and that's all we can tell you about it. We'd guess that it says the same as the English pla...

Smithfield Poultry Market

Smithfield Poultry Market

The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...

Event, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial