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Description: | 25th October 1973
Dressed in pale blue, Her Majesty The Queen Mother, on the steps of Leeds Civic Hall. The Lord Mayor of Leeds, Alderman Kenneth Travis Davison, is to the right of Her Majesty. The Freedom of the City of Leeds was to be granted to H.M.S. Ark Royal. Her Majesty was to confer the honour. The link between Ark Royal and the City began in 1941, when the previous Ark Royal had been sunk off Gibralter. The people of Leeds immediately raised almost ?10 million to commission a new vessel. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Royal Visit | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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