SW1, Cockspur Street
Created in 1914 by Metcalfe and Greig for no particular tenant this building was converted into the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in 1920 by a Norwegian architect, J.T. Westbye, using Norwegian granite and Norwegian details. Ornamental Passions has done a good post on this building with excellent photos of all the carvings.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Olaf
King of Norway 1015 - 1028. Before becoming king he was in London fighting t...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Olaf
The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. The front of the plinth shows a soldier in classical costume a...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
{Front of plinth:} Thomas Carlyle B Dec 4 1795 at Ecclefechan Dumfriesshire D Feb 5 1881 at Great Cheyne Row Chelsea {Right of plinth (...
Unveiled in Adams's lifetime which puts him in a select club - see Fenner Brockway statue.
This memorial is no longer here. Michael Jackson was a friend of Mohamed Al-Fayed, one-time owner of Fulham Football Club. The singer's o...
