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...
That's all well and good, but was there a maze? All that text and not a word about the maze. Elsewhere we've read that 'maze pond' was ...
The plaque can be seen in the lower left of our photo. 'Cutty Sark Gardens' sounds like a sarky name for a large area which is almost ent...
Armstrong worked here from the age of 20, first as receptionist, then as director and fundraiser.
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020: our colleague Alan Patient spotted that this plaque has gon...
‘Floreat Kew’, meaning ‘May Kew Flourish’ is the motto of the Kew Guild.
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