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Flagpole

Erection date: 1977

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This flagpole, provided by the forest industry of British Columbia for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was re-erected by the Provincial Government of British Columbia in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Site: Festival of Britain & Jack Dimmer VC (3 memorials)

SE1, Jubilee Gardens

Our photo shows the 3 memorials in a line, from the back: flagpole, Dimmer, Skylon.

Photos of this stretch of riverside just before the arrival of the Festival of Britain at A London Inheritance.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

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Festival of Britain

'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...

Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. This wa...

Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

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British Columbia

forest industry and Provincial Government.

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Flagpole

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John Dimmer VC

This plaque was unveiled exactly 100 years after the deeds that won Dimmer th...

Skylon

Plaque laid flat in the ground, to the west of the flagpole, to the right in ...

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