Memorial Cross at Lancaster Gate
W2, Lancaster Gate
A City of Westminster information plaque on the ground at the centre of the traffic island provides the following: The Christ Church war...
A City of Westminster information plaque on the ground at the centre of the traffic island provides the following: The Christ Church war...
{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:} To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hac...
Very sad - a stump of a memorial that is also weathered into illegibility.
This memorial used to be in Puzzle Corner because we were too blind and ignorant to be able to read the letters at the centre of the cros...
The memorial was designed by Hermon Cawthra RA and unveiled in 1934. It is grade II listed. A City of Westminster information plaque on ...
As usual the active service death toll in WW1 is much greater than that in WW2. But we find it surprising that in WW2 more people died in...
The shield (showing the Port of London seal) above the text is surmounted by a galleon and supported on either side by gryphon-type creat...
Victoria died on 22 January 1901, less than a year after this last visit to the City.
When this memorial was unveiled the street was still called Montreal Place.
"Cenotaph" is Greek for "empty tomb". The shape is a plain pylon with a coffin on top. This memorial by Lutyens, for the first anniver...