Erection date: 2/5/1975
These gardens were renamed Rembrandt Gardens on 2 May 1975 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the founding of the city of Amsterdam and to mark the creation of a special relationship with the City of Westminster.
W9, Warwick Avenue
The map gives a clue as to what that 'special relationship' is all about.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Amsterdam 700th Anniversary
The largest city in the Netherlands. It is officially the capital city, Den H...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Plaque-wise this is a busy little corner. Just to the south of this plaque there are three other mildly interesting, non-memorial, plaque...
Sir Kenneth Clark, 1903 - 1983, Art historian and broadcaster, lived here 1934 - 1939. English Heritage
2022: A London Inheritance drew our attention to the stamp and the text below. Very few plaques credit their creators, so this on a City...
See Spitalfields Life for a good post on the Caslon Foundry. April 2017: John Whitehead told us the plaque has been removed by developer...
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon it's Homer - he's often shown with a beanie hat.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
A Tamil philosopher and art historian. Born in Ceylon of a Tamil father and an English mother, brought up in England. Studied at University College, London.
We find this building puzzling since in some ways it looks more modern than those around but it retains many characteristics that suggest...
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