Her Majesty and His Royal Highness helped celebrate the 300th anniversary of Whitehaven during a day of engagements in Cumbria.
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Over 10,000 local people came out to greet The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh in Whitehaven
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The Royal party was greeted by 10,000 local people when they arrived in the town to open the Beacon museum which boasts views across the Harbour and the Solway Firth to the Isle of Man.
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The Queen during her tour of the Pencil Company
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They viewed a re-enactment of the freedom of the harbour being granted to the US Navy in 1999 as a nod to the fact that Augustine Washington, father of George Washington, hailed from Whitehaven.
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The Queen tours the Cumberland Pencil Company
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The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh then undertook a walkabout on Whitehaven Quay where they met locals.
Gerard Richardson from the Maritime Festival Committee said of The Queen’s visit:
‘It wasn’t just the flag waving, it was the people wanting to reach out and touch hands, and the flowers. It was absolutely outstanding.
And to receive genuinely warm comments from Her Majesty about the area was really a bonus.’
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The Queen visits the Cumbria Food Technology Centre
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Her Majesty and His Royal Highness went on to the Cumberland Pencil Company in Workington where pencils have been made from local graphite since 1832.
The final visit of the day was to the newly opened Cumbria Food Technology Centre in Penrith which offers business space for food and drink producers to test and develop their products and processes. |
