From : Leyden, M. (2002) China-Tianjin Postal and Cultural History. p.71

A further commemoration was the establishment of the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home, known as the Victoria Hospital (exact location not verified). This project was initiated by Dr H.R.Robertson with the generous support of Mr J.M. Dickinson who invited others to subscribe (such as the British

Legation in Peking). The British Municipal Council provided the site charging only the customary ground rent. The design and plans were drawn up pro deo by A.W. Harvey Bellingham. Until this time, the only hospital available was the General Hospital in the French Concession where some French Roman catholic nuns served devotedly. The new hospital would provide for ordinary medical and surgical needs and was intended for all nationalities. The foundation laying ceremony was a grand affair: the Free Masons were there in full Masonic regalia, there was a blue-jacketed contingent from HMS Peacock, the British Consul Mr B.C.G. Scott was in full civil service uniform. The stone was laid by Mrs Lees, the longest lady resident of Tientsin, who commented that the hospital would help "do something to lessen the sum of human suffering". Beneath the stone was placed a securely-sealed zinc box containing copies of the Peking and Tientsin Times, lists of subscribers and the inscription, a photo of Mrs Lees, various currencies of the day1. Subsequently there were almost annual alterations and additions. By April 1930, there were a total of eleven beds and some 40 000 people were served but the hospital was coming under increasing criticism for its draughty wards, limited bathrooms, old-fashioned washstands and lack of piped water, inconvenient layout, antiquated and sub-standard equipment2 although staff were praised as "extremely efficient, hard-working, pleasant and sympathetic".

The esteem in which Queen Victoria was held was also seen in the naming of the main road cutting through the British Concession known as Victoria Road (now Nanjing Lu). Behind the Tientsin Club (now Municipal Party committee building), there was a development known as the Victoria Terrace. It consisted of twenty 4-roomed houses with downstairs dining room, drawing room and verandah with two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. There was also a small Western-style restaurant called the Victoria Café (now Kieslings Restaurant in Xiao Bai Lou) started by Mr Bresler.

Corner entrance to the park October 2010, now remodelled again. (copyright A Klopper)

In 1935, King George V's silver jubilee was commemorated with the opening of another small park known as Jubilee Park. It can be found today next to the Ren Min Gymnasium (opposite Olympic Towers). Mr Peters of the British Municipal Committee noted that it was "proving a most popular resort and should be an added attraction to development in this district". As the king died not long after, it served as a memorial. Though none of these places remain in name today, at least a few continue to be places of activity and rest benefitting the current inhabitants of this city.