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PP/22/6/2/5 - Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to Cambridgeshire

Reference code
PP/22/6/2/5
Level of description
Item
Title
Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to Cambridgeshire
Date/s
1963
Quantity & Format
16 leaves
Personal name
Hitch, D. E.
Lacey, Robert (County Surveyor, Cambridgeshire)
Elizabeth,
Subject
Cottenham Village College
Moorlands Home for Old People
Creator
Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Scope and content
The programme includes the itinerary of the Queen Mother's visit to Cambridgeshire on 7/11/63. The Queen Mother officially opened Cottenham Village College and Moorlands, the Home for old people at Melbourn, and inaugurated the railway bridge and road diversion at Histon. The programme includes the order of proceedings for the opening of Cottenham Village College and an introduction to the College and its aims by [George] D. Edwards, Chief Education Officer. Robert Lacey, County Surveyor, provides details of the Histon Railway Bridge and Road diversion and D.E. Hitch, County Welfare Officer, provides an introduction and details concerning Moorlands Home for Old People. The programme also contains architect's plans of each of the new sites.
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