Erection date: /12/2012
Braeside - this house served as the Loughton Red Cross Military Hospital (1914 - 1919).
Loughton Town Council, 2012
IG10, Connaught Avenue, 1, Godiva House
2023: the building seems to be used by the Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and also by the Godiva Printing Shop.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Braeside - war hospital
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From the magnificent Lost Hospitals of London: "In December 1914 Braeside was...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Braeside - war hospital
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Braeside - war hospital
We were admiring the decorative brickwork on this 1906 building, rather hoping it might have a plaque so that we could include it. It has...
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.
The plaques are on the southern end wall of the colonnade. From their position and style, including the rope borders, these two plaques w...
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left t...
2018: Martyn Cornell debunked the text on the pub's plaque and provided the following, more trustworthy information: The pub owner’s name was J. G. Mooney & Co Ltd. based in Dublin, and founde...
British History Online informs that a house was "built by ... Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, in 1245; but in the thirtieth year of Henry III. it was granted by the king to Peter, Count of Sa...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Painter. Born Yorkshire. Moved to London in 1835. Died Carton Hill. Wikipedia gives his birth day as "19" but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and My Yorkshire both give "9".
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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