On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, Sir Henry Buckland, 1922 - 1956.
The London Borough of Bromley
The Crystal Palace Foundation
SE19, Westwood Hill
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Paxton’s house ‘Rockhills'
General manager of Crystal Palace 1914-49. Henry James Buckland was born in M...
Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedf...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Paxton’s house ‘Rockhills'
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
Patrick MacDowell, R.A., 1799 - 1870, eminent sculptor, lived here for many years.
George Seferis, 1900 - 1971, poet, Nobel prizewinner, Greek ambassador, lived here.
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales and Duke of York, were, in simpler te...
