This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. The above sign was damaged by shrapnel from a German bomb during an air raid on the night of 10th October 1940.
WC2, Portugal Street
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis...
Capt Frederick Marryat, 1792 - 1848, novelist, was educated at 'Holmwood' on this site. London Borough of Enfield
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
The SWET plaque is to the right of the Harris monument, just out the picture.
Alfred Reynolds, Hungarian poet and philosopher lived here 1980 - 1993.
