A CEREMONIAL beacon will be lit at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH) on June 2 to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The event will take place between 8pm and 10pm, where ROH will become one of a very small number of hospitals in the country to be lighting a Jubilee beacon.
More than 2022 beacons will be lit across the Commonwealth to commemorate the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
The Northfield hospital will have a string quartet at the ceremony, while refreshments will be available throughout the evening.
This will be the start of a programme of staff events including a Big Lunch for hospital colleagues and an outdoor party with street vendors and games.
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital chief executive Jo Williams said: “We are thrilled to be holding this once in a lifetime event and to enable our local community to pay tribute to the Queen as part of the official Platinum Jubilee weekend of celebrations.
“The ROH has a long heritage stretching back over 200 years. We have been lucky enough to welcome royal visitors from King George in 1927 to more recently the Princess Royal, who helped plant our Jubilee orchard as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative – which I’m happy to report patients and colleagues are now enjoying! This is a fantastic slice of history to be involved in”.
