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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London Stone

London Stone

Elizabeth I's occultist, John Dee, believed this stone had magic powers. Elsewhere you may read that it is connected to the Roman Brutus but that story was fabricated in 1862. The Museum of London ...

Building, Romans, Tourism / Traditions

2 memorials
Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn

Hotel chain. Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Kemmons Wilson. There are currently (2018) about 2,500 hotels worldwide.

Group, Tourism / Traditions, USA

1 memorial
Dr. Werner Kaempfen

Dr. Werner Kaempfen

Director of the Swiss National Tourist Office, Zurich.

Person, Tourism / Traditions, Switzerland

1 memorial
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
Harry Chi-Cheung Lee

Harry Chi-Cheung Lee

President of the China Town Chinese Association (London).

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions, China/Hong Kong

1 memorial

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Richard Quiney

Richard Quiney

Quiney wrote the famous letter to William Shakespeare dated the 25th October 1598 from the Bell Inn, Carter Lane. According to Wikipedia there were three generations of Richard Quineys, the middle...

Person, Other

1 memorial
Joseph Grimaldi

Joseph Grimaldi

Pantomime clown appearing at Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres. The traditional clowns' make-up, being called Joey and many of the gags and tricks date back to Grimaldi. Born i...

Person, Humour, Seriously Famous, Theatre

7 memorials
Hilda Hewlett

Hilda Hewlett

Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Born Hilda Beatrice Herbert in Vauxhall. The first British woman to earn a pilot's licence, in 1911. Together with her business partner, Gustav Blondeau, she foun...

Person, Aviation, Industry, New Zealand

1 memorial
Private George Frederick Faux

Private George Frederick Faux

George Frederick Faux was born on 18 July 1898 in Paddington, together with his twin brother, John Percy Faux (1898-1899), the seventh and eighth of the eleven children of John Benjamin Faux (b.185...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Marta Krawiec

Marta Krawiec

Dr Krawiec was killed by a left-turning HGV at the junction with Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row. She was aged 41 and worked as a paediatrician and and allergy expert at a clinic in Clapham and...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy, Poland

1 memorial