Event    From 2000  To 2001

The Millennium

Categories: Tourism / Traditions

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Millennium

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Blackfriars sundial

Can we guess what 'building products' Ibstock contributed, and how many? Diff...

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Bromley Millennium Rock

Bromley Millennium Rock This boulder of Lewisian Gneiss from Lochinver in Nor...

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Chelsea Pensioner statue

Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea to commemorate the Second Millenni...

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Enfield Millennium Fountain

The Millennium Fountain by Wendy Taylor CBE. Unveiled by the Worshipful the M...

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High Path Estate horse trough

There is another trough with the same inscription further west along the road.

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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower of London. Tower Bridge was designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barr...

Building, Tourism / Traditions, Transport

5 memorials
Coronation of King Edward VII

Coronation of King Edward VII

King Edward VII. Originally scheduled for 26 June but delayed due to the main player needing to have his appendix out, an innovative operation at the time. The elderly Archbishop Temple officiated ...

Event, Royalty, Tourism / Traditions

9 memorials
Festival of Britain

Festival of Britain

'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...

Event, Art, Cinema, Science, Tourism / Traditions

20 memorials
Guy, Earl of Warwick

Guy, Earl of Warwick

We were disappointed to find that Wikipedia considers Guy to be "a legendary English hero". Or he may be the very real Richard Neville, the king-making earl of Warwick.

Person, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial

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World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
Great Fire of London

Great Fire of London

Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area of one and a half miles by a half mile - 87 churches - 13,200 houses - only 6 people are recorded as having died (but ...

Event, Tragedy

55 memorials
South Suburban Gas Company war memorial

South Suburban Gas Company war memorial

SE6, Perry Hill, 225, Livesey Memorial Hall

The monument, designed by Sydney March, is grade II Listed. Prior to 2012 Google street view shows the original bronze plaques on this mo...

War dead, War served, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2
513 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Galen Weston

Galen Weston

Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store ...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial