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Tilbury is a port town on the north bank of the Thames in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. The town was established as separate settlement near East and West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort in the
The Port of Tilbury
The landing stage in 2001
Tilbury Clock Tower War Memorial, with the council offices and library behind it
The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered on 9 August Old Style 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation for repelling the e
Tilbury
…house, wrote about "the Essex ague". In 1588 Queen Elizabeth I came ashore here to review her main army at the nearby village of West Tilbury (see Speech to the Troops at Tilbury). In 1852 an Act of Parliament had authorised the building of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR), with a short spur to take advantage of…
Illustration of Elizabeth delivering the speech
The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth made to commemorate the Spanish Armada's defeat