{The round logo at the top of the plaque has an image of a house with these words surrounding it:}
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
From offices on this site the New Zealand Company on 5 May 1839 despatched the survey ship Tory to begin the colonisation of New Zealand on the Wakefield Plan.
WC2, Adam Street, 1-5
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Colonisation of New Zealand
Formed to establish British settlements in New Zealand. 5 May 1839 despatche...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Colonisation of New Zealand
William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla, born 1862, died 1951.
Photos from the other side of the street were made impossible by the bright sunshine. The Abbey plaque is trying to hide behind one of th...
We have numbered the foundation stones from left to right.
The story of SHAEF is complex but we are pretty certain "Grosvenor Square" is wrong; Eisenhower moved SHAEF from Norfolk House in St Jame...
Our photo shows one of three drinking fountains attached to the Spicer screen wall. The weather has not been kind to the sculpture in the...
