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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90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II

90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II was actually born on 21 April 1926, but since 1959 official celebrations have taken place on the second Saturday of June which in 2016 was the 11th.

Event, Royalty, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial
Coronation of King George VI

Coronation of King George VI

George VI's coronation at Westminster Abbey took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for the coronation of his brother King Edward VIII who had abdicated on 10 December 1936.

Event, Royalty, Tourism / Traditions

2 memorials
Tercentenary of the coronation of William and Mary

Tercentenary of the coronation of William and Mary

King William and Queen Mary reigned jointly from 1689 until Mary died in 1694, after which William ruled alone until his death in 1702.  They were first cousins and had married in 1677.  Mary was d...

Event, Royalty, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial
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

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Cyril A. Truscott

Cyril A. Truscott

Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Lieutenant Cyril Alfred Trustcott was born on 16 July 1883 in Paddington, the thi...

Person, Liveries & Guilds

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, financier and Conservative politician. Founded the Westminster Tree Trust.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Marsh & McLennan Companies

Marsh & McLennan Companies

US-based global financial brokerage firm.  Wikipedia says "At the time of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, the corporation held offices on eight floors of the North Tower of t...

Group, Commerce, Tragedy

1 memorial
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

WW1 poet.  Born Rugby.  Joined the navy and sailed to the Med. but died on his way to Gallipoli from an infected mosquito bite, on a French hospital ship moored in the Aegean Sea.  Buried in an oli...

Person, Poetry, Greece

2 memorials