Plaque

Queen Elizabeth II Field - SE16

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 2012

Inscription

{Around the top edge:}
Queen Elizabeth II Field

{In the centre, below the royal crest:}
Diamond Jubilee 2012

{Around the lower edge:}
Fields in Trust

Site: Queen Elizabeth II jubilees (2 memorials)

SE16, Fulford Street

The round plaque is laid in the ground, land-side of the monument.

London Screen Archives have a film, made by the London Borough of Southwark Public Relations, of the unveiling by the Queen of this stone, or rather, this stone before it got cut down. The monument she unveiled had a lot more to it.

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Queen Elizabeth II Field - SE16

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Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

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Queen Elizabeth II

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth II Field - SE16

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Fields in Trust

From their website: "We were founded by HRH The Duke of York, later HM King G...

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Queen Elizabeth II Field - SE16

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Queen Elizabeth II jubilees

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