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Jim Sykes opens 300th anniversary border on Sunday 4 May 2008

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The border marks the 300th anniversary of the building of the Porter's Lodge in 1708 and celebrates the use of herbs in medicine.


Dr Ann Coats welcomes guests and Friends to the opening


Guests and Friends listen to the welcome speech


Surgeon Commodore Jim Sykes Royal Navy, Medical Officer in Charge, Institute of Naval Medicine, speaks about the use of herbs in medicine, naval medicine and the history of medicine in England


cuts the ribbon to open the border


then performs the first watering

Pictures: John Scott

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