Queen’s days in the North East celebrated online
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IMAGES of the Queen’s visits to the North East over the years feature in an interactive story map that has been launched by Historic England.
The map has been produced as an education tool to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and shows hundreds of images of the Queen at sites across England.
The map, the work of Historic England’s heritage schools programme and funded by the Department for Education, aims to help pupils learn about their local heritage and its significance.
From opening civic buildings like town halls and schools to visiting museums, sports grounds and pubs, the map shows the variety of heritage sites the Queen has visited both during and prior to her reign.
Images from the region include the Queen with the Duchess of Northumberland and Alan Shearer during a visit to Alnwick.
Another shows the Queen on the Tyne and Wear Metro. She arrived in Sunderland on the second leg of her nationwide Golden Jubilee tour in 2002.
A Sunderland picture also shows the Queen viewing a street party at Corporation Quay on her Diamond Jubilee tour.
She is also pictured at Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade’s watch house and museum, at the official opening of the Tyne’s Millennium Bridge, meeting
Eram Javid, a member of the Kashmir community at the Sage Gateshead in 2005, the official opening of Durham City’s Claypath library, and at Easington Colliery in County Durham on her Golden Jubilee tour.
A picture from Teesside shows the Queen on a visit in 1956. In the image, she pauses to look at a dress, made of 100% Terylene, as she tours an exhibition of goods made from the synthetic fibre at the Imperial Chemical Industries works at Wilton.
Wilton was operated by chemical company ICI which opened the site in 1949.
The story map, available via the Historic England website, also displays information about when and why the Queen visited, as well as a brief history about the sites.
Duncan Wilson, chief executive, of Historic England, said “This interactive map shows the incredible variety of sites the Queen has visited in the past 70 years. We hope schools, teachers, parents and the public will explore the map, discover more about their local historic sites and follow in the Queen’s footsteps by supporting local heritage.”
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