The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. The Golden Jubilee Weekend took place between 1 and 4 June 2002 in London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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Charlton House mulberry tree - 1
The Tree Council in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen El...
Dovehouse Green - blue plaques
{Top plaque:} To celebrate the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II 1952-1977 and ...
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria - Teddington
The new plaque (not shown) is rather brash but we like how the wording refers...
Golden Jubilee sundial
This is an analemmatic sundial. A gnomon that moves according to the date ma...
Great Ormond Street Hosp. - 150 Anniversary
This plaque commemorates the visit by H M The Queen, Patron of Great Ormond S...
Other Subjects
Queen Charlotte
Charlotte Sophia, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married King George III in 1761, 2 weeks before their coronation and only a few hours after meeting him. Produced many children in between nurs...
King James II
England's last Roman Catholic king, James II of England but James VII of Scotland. Born in St James's Palace and designated Duke of York until he ascended the throne in 1685 on the death of his bro...
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
Married Humphrey, uncle to the child King Henry VI. Eleanor was implicated in a plot of treasonable necromancy against the king. Her supposed co-conspirators were executed and she was sentenced ...
Sophia, Duchess of Brabant
Duchess. Born in Wartburg Castle, near Eisenach in Thuringia, Germany. She married Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier and was the heiress of Hesse which she passed on to her son, Henry upon her ...
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River Effra
At the Brockwell Lido plaque there is an information board which begins by explaining the function of stink pipes: "What is a stink pipe? The lofty green pipe behind you is a Victorian stink pipe, ...
Ace Cafe
It originally catered for the traffic on the newly opened North Circular Road. Destroyed in a WW2 air raid, it was rebuilt in 1949 and through the 50s became a haven for the 'ton-up-boys' and then ...
Smithfield Market Fire, 1958
On 23 January 1958, a fire broke out in the basement of Union Cold Storage Co at the Smithfield Poultry Market. The fire spread throughout the maze of basements under the market and burned for thre...
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