This plaque was donated by the members of the Burlington Arcade Association to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the Arcade.
1819 - 1969
Unveiled 21st May 1969 by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra.
'Sesquicentenary' is such a great word - it's not even in the Microsoft dictionary. As you can work out it means the 150th anniversary.
W1, Burlington Arcade, 4
Actually on the pillar between nos 3 and 4.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Burlington Arcade
Lord George Cavendish, the future Earl of Burlington, commissioned the archit...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Burlington Arcade
Lord George Cavendish, the future Earl of Burlington, commissioned the archit...
Granddaughter of King George V and daughter of George, Duke of Kent. Born Ale...
This was Burton's home, where he lived whilst building Guilford Street and the south side of Brunswick Square. It now belongs to the Univ...
This building, erected in 1957, is named after Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor, G.B.E., K.C., Lord Maenan, a Master of the Bench, 1905 ...
Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on the Diss Street plaque.
The piers on either side of the path look like gate-posts but there's no evidence of any gates ever having been attached. Each of the pie...
The unusual shape of the plaque, is probably due to the fact that there is nowhere large enough on the face of the building, to erect the...
Stanley John Herbert Muzzell was born on 19 February 1891 at 12 Manor Place, Paddington, London, the third of the nine children of Thomas William Muzzell (1859-1919) and Mary Ann Sophia Muzzell née...
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an American activist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. ...
Campaigner and community activist. Daughter of Sir Alan Herbert, she lived in Islington for almost 50 years. In the 1960s her house overlooked the City Road Basin and she led the campaign to save i...
Architect. Articled to Henry Poston. Later he specialised in cinema design.
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