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
From Birkbeck : "Sculptor, Ralph Beyer, who died in 2008 aged 86, fled from ...
The statue is known as 'The Shepherdess' and is signed "C.L. Hartwell. R.A." It appeared, as 'The Goatherd's Daughter', on one of the car...
{On the base of the monument:} Anchor Iron Wharf In 964 King Edgar granted this land to the abbey of St Peter's in Ghent, Flanders. Henry...
The lettering on the plinth does not look contemporary with the dove sculpture. It has the look of having originally been on a older mem...
This shiny steel box contains an electricity substation for the Bakerloo and Northern lines, but it is also a memorial to Michael Faraday...
Became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. Like his father George V, he was born a second son and rather unexpectedly ascended to the throne. Like his grandfather, Edward VII, he was bor...
An automated light metro system, opened in 1987 and extended four times. 2024: Londonist have an excellent Brief History Of The DLR.
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Churchill and variously known as "Churchill's Secret Army", "The Baker Street Irregulars", the Pythonesque "Ministry of Ungent...
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