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Opening of Richard Laws Building and UK-Germany Millennium Friendship Garden, 2000 - 2002

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Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDPH 5/34

Scope and Contents

Album containing 34 colour photographs of the official opening ceremonies, which were performed by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, 2 May 2002. The album contains, at the front, a list of the photographs which include staff, fellows, the Duke of Edinburgh and other guests. Also papers concerning the Norfolk Commemoration, which took place on the same day, including guest list and seating plans. Also notes on the Millennium Friendship Garden and Professor Paul Gert von Beckerath's benefaction, list of German student contributors, list of plants, and the text of a speech given by von Beckerath at a lunch at St Edmund's on 4 December 2000 outlining his plans to finance the garden.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000 - 2002

Extent

1 volume(s) : photograph

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from the Common Room November 2010.

Originator(s)

Unknown

Finding aid date

2010-12-08 13:26:09+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the St Edmunds College Archive Repository

Contact:
St Edmund's College
Mount Pleasant
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0BN United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 760873