Erection date: 12/6/2008
{On a plaque fixed to the base:}
Unveiled by HRH, The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London, to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the University of London External System. 12 June 2008.
{On the horizontal ring:}
David Harber, Aston Upthorpe, Oxfordshire, MMVIII.
For other armillary spheres see Wolff.
WC1, Torrington Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Armillary sphere London Uni.External System
Distance learning, now known as 'International Programmes'.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Armillary sphere London Uni.External System
Sorry about the rubbish picture but this item is hidden away at the edge of the property, behind a car-park. Note: the house was at Grov...
{On some of the photos:} Michael Fadil, 13-01-90 to 06-01-21
Unveiled 7 November 2016 to mark the 75th anniversary of Pick’s death and the centenary of the Johnston typeface.
This memorial is a sundial in the shape of a armillary sphere - see Wolff for another example. The sphere is supported by 4 silhouetted g...
This is an analemmatic sundial. A gnomon that moves according to the date makes the time-telling more accurate. In this case the gnomon...
Born Gloucestershire. A prolific Victorian sculptor. The splendid Speel gives this list of other works in London: pediment of Paddington Station Great Western Hotel; decorative work on the piers o...
Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 28 January 1900, the eighth of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
With the two other architects Sir Herbert Baker and Alexander T Scott, Vernon Helbing built London House, Goodenough College in WC1 in 1972. It is now Grade II listed.
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