From Birkbeck: "The sculpture, which is thought to have been created in the 1950s, is approximately 1.2 metres high not including its plinth. It is carved from Warwickshire Horton Stone...".
WC1, Malet Street, Birkbeck College
July 2020: Preparing for its 200th anniversary in 2023 Birkbeck College launched an appeal for the whereabouts of its lost WW2 memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Birkbeck WW2 memorial
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Birkbeck says that the memorial was created "... to commemorate the lives of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Birkbeck WW2 memorial
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There have been two buildings known as Baynard's Castle, on different sites. Just to the east of where Blackfriars station now stands Ralph Baynard erected a Norman fortification in about 1000. Th...
Born Windsor, son of Henry V. King of England 1422 - 1461 and 1470 - 1471. Madness and the Wars of the Roses explain the gap. Also King of France 1422 - 1453. As a child king there were regents unt...
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Born in Broadheath, near Worcester. First moved to London on his marriage in 1889. A keen early adopting cyclist he often got inspiration from a country ride. On writing "Land of Hope and Glory" ...
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