These premises were totally destroyed by a Zeppelin Raid during the World War on September 8th 1915.
Rebuilt 1917.
John Phillips - Governing Director
This plaque has been noted by a few people, the author Julian Barnes being one. See "Memorial hunting" on the New Visitors Page (button at top) for his (character's) comments.
EC1, Farringdon Road, 61, Zeppelin Building
Note the name of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Zeppelin Raid
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Zeppelin Raid
"Governing Director" presumably of the company that rebuilt the Zeppelin buil...
The inscription is distressed to the extent that it is partially illegible. We believe it refers to the same gift as that on one of the p...
English Heritage Alfred Waterhouse, 1830 - 1905, architect, lived here.
"The beauty of trees..." is a quotation from Hutcheson.
Israel Zangwill, 1864 - 1926, writer and philanthropist, lived here. London County Council
Samuel Palmer, 1805 - 1881, artist, lived here, 1851 - 1861. Greater London Council
