The Queen opens new pumping station on Sandringham estate

The Queen recalled where her father King George VI used to walk his corgis on Sandringham as she opened a new pumping station on the estate. She officially opened Wolferton’s new pumping station 72 years after her father opened the original station on February 2 1948.

After unveiling a new plaque and signing the visitors’ book she was presented with framed archive photographs of her father opening the original pumping station.

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Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive.

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