IN PICTURES: Prince Philip's visits to Shropshire

1952: On October 24 the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited Shrewsbury School in its 400th anniversary year. They are pictured at Shrewsbury Castle. It was one of the first royal visits of her reign, and the first official visit to Shrewsbury by a reigning monarch since 1914.

1952: The Queen and Prince Philip leaving Shrewsbury Castle with the Mayor of Shrewsbury, Colonel J.M. West, and the Mayoress

2012: Three cheers for the Queen at the Diamond Jubilee pageant at Cosford.

1972: Prince Philip leaves Wellington railway station on arrival for a royal visit during which he opened Madeley Court Centre

1952: Arrival at Shrewsbury station on October 24, and flowers presented by the mayor's daughter, Diana West.

1954: Sharing a joke in the Mill Room at the Research Association of the British Rubber Manufacturers at Shawbury.

2003: The Duke is handed an air horn to signal the start of demolition at Wilton Court, Woodside, Telford – although in fact demolition did not start until much later.

2014: Sharing a word during the royal couple's last local visit, when the Queen formally opened the new JLR plant on the i54 site off the M54

1949: The royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to the Royal Show held at Sundorne, Shrewsbury.

1949: The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Elizabeth at the 1949 Royal Show in Shrewsbury. Picture loaned by Mrs Sybil Waite.

1969: The Duke flies in - and out. Prince Philip piloted an Andover of the Queen's Flight into RAF Shawbury during a heavy downpour. After a brisk walk across the tarmac, he climbed into the cockpit of a helicopter and flew himself out en route for Keele University.

1949: The Duke with the then Princess Elizabeth at the Royal Show which was held in Shrewsbury in July

1954: The Duke of Edinburgh looks at frogmen's equipment with Dr J R Scott, director of research at the Rubber Research Association laboratories at Shawbury

1954: Sharing a joke in the Mill Room at the Research Association of the British Rubber Manufacturers at Shawbury.

1954: The Duke of Edinburgh was interested in an anaesthetist's trolley, fully equipped, at the Research Association Laboratory of the British Rubber Manufacturers at Shawbury

1952: Arrival at Shrewsbury station on October 24, and flowers presented by the mayor's daughter, Diana West.

1949: The then Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in Shrewsbury for the Royal Show which was held in Sundorne, that year